Edge Detection

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

9 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 147 papers with code (490 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Holistically-Nested Edge Detection
  24 Apr 2015 17 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 13 samples · 13 unverified
  We develop a new edge detection algorithm that tackles two important issues in this long-standing vision problem: (1) holistic image training and prediction; and (2) multi-scale and multi-level feature learning.
• CASENet: Deep Category-Aware Semantic Edge Detection
  27 May 2017 11 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 7 samples · 4 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  To this end, we propose a novel end-to-end deep semantic edge learning architecture based on ResNet and a new skip-layer architecture where category-wise edge activations at the top convolution layer share and are fused…
• HED-UNet: Combined Segmentation and Edge Detection for Monitoring the Antarctic Coastline
  2 Mar 2021 5 repositories listed
  Deep learning-based coastline detection algorithms have begun to outshine traditional statistical methods in recent years.
• Kornia: an Open Source Differentiable Computer Vision Library for PyTorch
  5 Oct 2019 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 20 samples · 20 unverified
  This work presents Kornia -- an open source computer vision library which consists of a set of differentiable routines and modules to solve generic computer vision problems.
• Sanity Checks for Saliency Maps
  8 Oct 2018 5 repositories listed
  We find that reliance, solely, on visual assessment can be misleading.
• Dense Extreme Inception Network: Towards a Robust CNN Model for Edge Detection
  4 Sep 2019 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 19 samples · 18 unverified
  This dataset has been used for training the proposed approach as well the state-of-the-art algorithms for comparisons.
• Multimodal Generative Models for Scalable Weakly-Supervised Learning
  14 Feb 2018 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Multiple modalities often co-occur when describing natural phenomena.
• Simultaneous Edge Alignment and Learning
  6 Aug 2018 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 5 samples · 5 unverified
  Edge detection is among the most fundamental vision problems for its role in perceptual grouping and its wide applications.
• Richer Convolutional Features for Edge Detection
  7 Dec 2016 3 repositories listed
  Using VGG16 network, we achieve \sArt results on several available datasets.
• Object Contour Detection with a Fully Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network
  15 Mar 2016 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 4 samples · 4 unverified
  We develop a deep learning algorithm for contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network.
• Fast Detection of Curved Edges at Low SNR
  25 May 2015 3 repositories listed
  Detecting edges is a fundamental problem in computer vision with many applications, some involving very noisy images.
• Leveraging edge detection and neural networks for better UAV localization
  9 Apr 2024 2 repositories listed
  Here, we demonstrate that the performance of these methods can be significantly enhanced by preprocessing the images to extract their edges, which exhibit robustness to seasonal and illumination variations.
• MEGANet: Multi-Scale Edge-Guided Attention Network for Weak Boundary Polyp Segmentation
  6 Sep 2023 2 repositories listed
  MEGANet is designed as an end-to-end framework, encompassing three key modules: an encoder, which is responsible for capturing and abstracting the features from the input image, a decoder, which focuses on salient…
• Simultaneous Image-to-Zero and Zero-to-Noise: Diffusion Models with Analytical Image Attenuation
  23 Jun 2023 2 repositories listed
  We propose incorporating an analytical image attenuation process into the forward diffusion process for high-quality (un)conditioned image generation with significantly fewer denoising steps compared to the vanilla…
• SILOP: An Automated Framework for Semantic Segmentation Using Image Labels Based on Object Perimeters
  14 Mar 2023 2 repositories listed
  Our new PerimeterFit module will be applied to pre-refine the CAM predictions before using the pixel-similarity-based network.
• Pixel Difference Networks for Efficient Edge Detection
  16 Aug 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 7 samples · 1 unverified · 7 pointer-only (licence)
  A faster version of PiDiNet with less than 0.
• A novel centroid update approach for clustering-based superpixel methods and superpixel-based edge detection
  18 Oct 2019 2 repositories listed
  Then according to the statistical features of noise, we propose a novel centroid update approach to enhance the robustness of clustering-based superpixel methods.
• Edge-Direct Visual Odometry
  11 Jun 2019 2 repositories listed
  In contrast our method builds on direct visual odometry methods naturally with minimal added computation.
• Object Contour and Edge Detection with RefineContourNet
  30 Apr 2019 2 repositories listed
  A ResNet-based multi-path refinement CNN is used for object contour detection.
• Bi-Directional Cascade Network for Perceptual Edge Detection
  28 Feb 2019 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 2 samples · 2 unverified
  Exploiting multi-scale representations is critical to improve edge detection for objects at different scales.
• DeepFlux for Skeletons in the Wild
  30 Nov 2018 2 repositories listed
  In the present article, we depart from this strategy by training a CNN to predict a two-dimensional vector field, which maps each scene point to a candidate skeleton pixel, in the spirit of flux-based skeletonization…
• Faster Training of Mask R-CNN by Focusing on Instance Boundaries
  19 Sep 2018 2 repositories listed
  We present an auxiliary task to Mask R-CNN, an instance segmentation network, which leads to faster training of the mask head.
• On Detection of Faint Edges in Noisy Images
  22 Jun 2017 2 repositories listed
  A fundamental question for edge detection in noisy images is how faint can an edge be and still be detected.
• DeepCS-TRD, a Deep Learning-based Cross-Section Tree Ring Detector
  9 Sep 2025 1 repository listed
  Here, we propose Deep CS-TRD, a new automatic algorithm for detecting tree rings in whole cross-sections.
• Rethinking Boundary Detection in Deep Learning-Based Medical Image Segmentation
  6 May 2025 1 repository listed
  Medical image segmentation is a pivotal task within the realms of medical image analysis and computer vision.
• A Doubly Decoupled Network for edge detection
  1 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  Firstly, we decouple image-edge pairs and build learnable Gaussian distributions.
• STAR-Edge: Structure-aware Local Spherical Curve Representation for Thin-walled Edge Extraction from Unstructured Point Clouds
  2 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Extracting geometric edges from unstructured point clouds remains a significant challenge, particularly in thin-walled structures that are commonly found in everyday objects.
• Agricultural Field Boundary Detection through Integration of "Simple Non-Iterative Clustering (SNIC) Super Pixels" and "Canny Edge Detection Method"
  6 Feb 2025 1 repository listed
  In this context, identification of cropland boundaries based on spectral analysis of data obtained from satellite images is considered one of the most optimal and accurate methods in modern agriculture.
• EDMB: Edge Detector with Mamba
  8 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  Drawing inspiration from this, we propose a novel edge detector with Mamba, termed EDMB, to efficiently generate high-quality multi-granularity edges.
• Efficient Detection Framework Adaptation for Edge Computing: A Plug-and-play Neural Network Toolbox Enabling Edge Deployment
  24 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  These results highlight ED-TOOLBOX as a superior solution for edge object detection.

Syntology lines on 9 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.