SalFAU-Net: Saliency Fusion Attention U-Net for Salient Object Detection

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Main Authors: Mulat, Kassaw Abraham, Feng, Zhengyong, Eshetie, Tegegne Solomon, Hasen, Ahmed Endris
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author Mulat, Kassaw Abraham
Feng, Zhengyong
Eshetie, Tegegne Solomon
Hasen, Ahmed Endris
author_facet Mulat, Kassaw Abraham
Feng, Zhengyong
Eshetie, Tegegne Solomon
Hasen, Ahmed Endris
contents Salient object detection (SOD) remains an important task in computer vision, with applications ranging from image segmentation to autonomous driving. Fully convolutional network (FCN)-based methods have made remarkable progress in visual saliency detection over the last few decades. However, these methods have limitations in accurately detecting salient objects, particularly in challenging scenes with multiple objects, small objects, or objects with low resolutions. To address this issue, we proposed a Saliency Fusion Attention U-Net (SalFAU-Net) model, which incorporates a saliency fusion module into each decoder block of the attention U-net model to generate saliency probability maps from each decoder block. SalFAU-Net employs an attention mechanism to selectively focus on the most informative regions of an image and suppress non-salient regions. We train SalFAU-Net on the DUTS dataset using a binary cross-entropy loss function. We conducted experiments on six popular SOD evaluation datasets to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The experimental results demonstrate that our method, SalFAU-Net, achieves competitive performance compared to other methods in terms of mean absolute error (MAE), F-measure, s-measure, and e-measure.
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spellingShingle SalFAU-Net: Saliency Fusion Attention U-Net for Salient Object Detection
Mulat, Kassaw Abraham
Feng, Zhengyong
Eshetie, Tegegne Solomon
Hasen, Ahmed Endris
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Salient object detection (SOD) remains an important task in computer vision, with applications ranging from image segmentation to autonomous driving. Fully convolutional network (FCN)-based methods have made remarkable progress in visual saliency detection over the last few decades. However, these methods have limitations in accurately detecting salient objects, particularly in challenging scenes with multiple objects, small objects, or objects with low resolutions. To address this issue, we proposed a Saliency Fusion Attention U-Net (SalFAU-Net) model, which incorporates a saliency fusion module into each decoder block of the attention U-net model to generate saliency probability maps from each decoder block. SalFAU-Net employs an attention mechanism to selectively focus on the most informative regions of an image and suppress non-salient regions. We train SalFAU-Net on the DUTS dataset using a binary cross-entropy loss function. We conducted experiments on six popular SOD evaluation datasets to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The experimental results demonstrate that our method, SalFAU-Net, achieves competitive performance compared to other methods in terms of mean absolute error (MAE), F-measure, s-measure, and e-measure.
title SalFAU-Net: Saliency Fusion Attention U-Net for Salient Object Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02906