object contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder decoder network

41571436), the Hubei Province Science and Technology Support Program, China (Project No. 2 illustrates the entire architecture of our proposed network for contour detection. Moreover, to suppress the image-border contours appeared in the results of CEDN, we applied a simple image boundary region extension method to enlarge the input image 10 pixels around the image during the testing stage. 7 shows the fused performances compared with HED and CEDN, in which our method achieved the state-of-the-art performances. network is trained end-to-end on PASCAL VOC with refined ground truth from Thus the improvements on contour detection will immediately boost the performance of object proposals. The most of the notations and formulations of the proposed method follow those of HED[19]. A novel deep contour detection algorithm with a top-down fully convolutional encoder-decoder network that achieved the state-of-the-art on the BSDS500 dataset, the PASCAL VOC2012 dataset, and the NYU Depth dataset. After fine-tuning, there are distinct differences among HED-ft, CEDN and TD-CEDN-ft (ours) models, which infer that our network has better learning and generalization abilities. We demonstrate the state-of-the-art evaluation results on three common contour detection datasets. Boosting object proposals: From Pascal to COCO. natural images and its application to evaluating segmentation algorithms and In SectionII, we review related work on the pixel-wise semantic prediction networks. We also note that there is still a big performance gap between our current method (F=0.57) and the upper bound (F=0.74), which requires further research for improvement. We fine-tuned the model TD-CEDN-over3 (ours) with the NYUD training dataset. Object Contour Detection with a Fully Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network, the Caffe toolbox for Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Networks (, scripts for training and testing the PASCAL object contour detector, and. Its contour prediction precision-recall curve is illustrated in Figure13, with comparisons to our CEDN model, the pre-trained HED model on BSDS (referred as HEDB) and others. Different from HED, we only used the raw depth maps instead of HHA features[58]. (2). View 6 excerpts, references methods and background. 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), We develop a deep learning algorithm for contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. refers to the image-level loss function for the side-output. The dataset is split into 381 training, 414 validation and 654 testing images. J.Hosang, R.Benenson, P.Dollr, and B.Schiele. Hariharan et al. Object contour detection is fundamental for numerous vision tasks. SharpMask[26] concatenated the current feature map of the decoder network with the output of the convolutional layer in the encoder network, which had the same plane size. Indoor segmentation and support inference from rgbd images. detection, our algorithm focuses on detecting higher-level object contours. which is guided by Deeply-Supervision Net providing the integrated direct The thinned contours are obtained by applying a standard non-maximal suppression technique to the probability map of contour. [57], we can get 10528 and 1449 images for training and validation. curves, in, Q.Zhu, G.Song, and J.Shi, Untangling cycles for contour grouping, in, J.J. Kivinen, C.K. Williams, N.Heess, and D.Technologies, Visual boundary This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. We find that the learned model generalizes well to unseen object classes from. 10.6.4. The final high dimensional features of the output of the decoder are fed to a trainable convolutional layer with a kernel size of 1 and an output channel of 1, and then the reduced feature map is applied to a sigmoid layer to generate a soft prediction. Our proposed method, named TD-CEDN, INTRODUCTION O BJECT contour detection is a classical and fundamen-tal task in computer vision, which is of great signif-icance to numerous computer vision applications, including segmentation [1], [2], object proposals [3], [4], object de- We experiment with a state-of-the-art method of multiscale combinatorial grouping[4] to generate proposals and believe our object contour detector can be directly plugged into most of these algorithms. We develop a deep learning algorithm for contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. detection, in, G.Bertasius, J.Shi, and L.Torresani, DeepEdge: A multi-scale bifurcated L.-C. Chen, G.Papandreou, I.Kokkinos, K.Murphy, and A.L. Yuille. Semantic image segmentation via deep parsing network. Therefore, the trained model is only sensitive to the stronger contours in the former case, while its sensitive to both the weak and strong edges in the latter case. /. network is trained end-to-end on PASCAL VOC with refined ground truth from The architecture of U2CrackNet is a two. We present Convolutional Oriented Boundaries (COB), which produces multiscale oriented contours and region hierarchies starting from generic image classification Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Fig. Encoder-Decoder Network, Object Contour and Edge Detection with RefineContourNet, Object segmentation in depth maps with one user click and a convolutional encoder-decoder network. The ground truth contour mask is processed in the same way. Powered by Pure, Scopus & Elsevier Fingerprint Engine 2023 Elsevier B.V. We use cookies to help provide and enhance our service and tailor content. Complete survey of models in this eld can be found in . SegNet[25] used the max pooling indices to upsample (without learning) the feature maps and convolved with a trainable decoder network. to use Codespaces. inaccurate polygon annotations, yielding much higher precision in object In addition to upsample1, each output of the upsampling layer is followed by the convolutional, deconvolutional and sigmoid layers in the training stage. The above mentioned four methods[20, 48, 21, 22] are all patch-based but not end-to-end training and holistic image prediction networks. (5) was applied to average the RGB and depth predictions. We then select the lea. In this section, we evaluate our method on contour detection and proposal generation using three datasets: PASCAL VOC 2012, BSDS500 and MS COCO. supervision. This allows our model to be easily integrated with other decoders such as bounding box regression[17] and semantic segmentation[38] for joint training. We show we can fine tune our network for edge detection and match the state-of-the-art in terms of precision and recall. Our network is trained end-to-end on PASCAL VOC with refined ground truth from inaccurate polygon annotations, yielding much higher precision in object contour detection than previous methods. In CVPR, 3051-3060. Early research focused on designing simple filters to detect pixels with highest gradients in their local neighborhood, e.g. We believe the features channels of our decoder are still redundant for binary labeling addressed here and thus also add a dropout layer after each relu layer. A ResNet-based multi-path refinement CNN is used for object contour detection. HED integrated FCN[23] and DSN[30] to learn meaningful features from multiple level layers in a single trimmed VGG-16 net. When the trained model is sensitive to both the weak and strong contours, it shows an inverted results. In the future, we consider developing large scale semi-supervised learning methods for training the object contour detector on MS COCO with noisy annotations, and applying the generated proposals for object detection and instance segmentation. By combining with the multiscale combinatorial grouping algorithm, our method color, and texture cues. . VOC 2012 release includes 11540 images from 20 classes covering a majority of common objects from categories such as person, vehicle, animal and household, where 1464 and 1449 images are annotated with object instance contours for training and validation. Then the output was fed into the convolutional, ReLU and deconvolutional layers to upsample. By combining with the multiscale combinatorial grouping algorithm, our method can generate high-quality segmented object proposals, which significantly advance the state-of-the-art on PASCAL VOC (improving average recall from 0.62 to 0.67) with a relatively small amount of candidates (1660 per image). The detection accuracies are evaluated by four measures: F-measure (F), fixed contour threshold (ODS), per-image best threshold (OIS) and average precision (AP). To address the quality issue of ground truth contour annotations, we develop a method based on dense CRF to refine the object segmentation masks from polygons. Object Contour Detection with a Fully Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network . home. The objective function is defined as the following loss: where W denotes the collection of all standard network layer parameters, side. Zhu et al. For example, it can be used for image seg- . Semantic image segmentation with deep convolutional nets and fully Our network is trained end-to-end on PASCAL VOC with refined ground truth from inaccurate polygon annotations, yielding much higher precision in object contour detection than previous methods. 1 datasets. We choose this dataset for training our object contour detector with the proposed fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. For example, it can be used for image segmentation[41, 3], for object detection[15, 18], and for occlusion and depth reasoning[20, 2]. D.R. Martin, C.C. Fowlkes, and J.Malik. We propose a convolutional encoder-decoder framework to extract image contours supported by a generative adversarial network to improve the contour quality. Fig. TLDR. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Though the deconvolutional layers are fixed to the linear interpolation, our experiments show outstanding performances to solve such issues. You signed in with another tab or window. In this paper, we propose an automatic pavement crack detection method called as U2CrackNet. Note that we fix the training patch to. Yang et al. Observing the predicted maps, our method predicted the contours more precisely and clearly, which seems to be a refined version. This code includes; the Caffe toolbox for Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Networks (caffe-cedn)scripts for training and testing the PASCAL object contour detector, and The first layer of decoder deconv6 is designed for dimension reduction that projects 4096-d conv6 to 512-d with 11 kernel so that we can re-use the pooling switches from conv5 to upscale the feature maps by twice in the following deconv5 layer. Our method not only provides accurate predictions but also presents a clear and tidy perception on visual effect. vision,, X.Ren, C.C. Fowlkes, and J.Malik, Scale-invariant contour completion using We report the AR and ABO results in Figure11. boundaries, in, , Imagenet large scale Abstract: We develop a deep learning algorithm for contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. No description, website, or topics provided. Our network is trained end-to-end on PASCAL VOC with refined ground truth from inaccurate polygon annotations, yielding much higher precision in object contour detection than previous methods. In this section, we introduce our object contour detection method with the proposed fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. However, since it is very challenging to collect high-quality contour annotations, the available datasets for training contour detectors are actually very limited and in small scale. Note that a standard non-maximum suppression is used to clean up the predicted contour maps (thinning the contours) before evaluation. Efficient inference in fully connected CRFs with gaussian edge We will need more sophisticated methods for refining the COCO annotations. contour detection than previous methods. Edge detection has experienced an extremely rich history. search. Being fully convolutional . A tensorflow implementation of object-contour-detection with fully convolutional encoder decoder network. 520 - 527. Ren et al. However, these techniques only focus on CNN-based disease detection and do not explain the characteristics of disease . Recently, applying the features of the encoder network to refine the deconvolutional results has raised some studies. We find that the learned model . visual recognition challenge,, This is a recurring payment that will happen monthly, If you exceed more than 500 images, they will be charged at a rate of $5 per 500 images. To achieve multi-scale and multi-level learning, they first applied the Canny detector to generate candidate contour points, and then extracted patches around each point at four different scales and respectively performed them through the five networks to produce the final prediction. The U-Net architecture is synonymous with that of an encoder-decoder architecture, containing both a contraction path (encoder) and a symmetric expansion path (decoder). Given the success of deep convolutional networks[29] for learning rich feature hierarchies, AndreKelm/RefineContourNet Previous literature has investigated various methods of generating bounding box or segmented object proposals by scoring edge features[49, 11] and combinatorial grouping[46, 9, 4] and etc. Different from DeconvNet, the encoder-decoder network of CEDN emphasizes its asymmetric structure. Learning to detect natural image boundaries using local brightness, For a training image I, =|I||I| and 1=|I|+|I| where |I|, |I| and |I|+ refer to total number of all pixels, non-contour (negative) pixels and contour (positive) pixels, respectively. mid-level representation for contour and object detection, in, S.Xie and Z.Tu, Holistically-nested edge detection, in, W.Shen, X.Wang, Y.Wang, X.Bai, and Z.Zhang, DeepContour: A deep The model differs from the . FCN[23] combined the lower pooling layer with the current upsampling layer following by summing the cropped results and the output feature map was upsampled. abstract = "We develop a deep learning algorithm for contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. COCO and can match state-of-the-art edge detection on BSDS500 with fine-tuning. The main idea and details of the proposed network are explained in SectionIII. With the same training strategy, our method achieved the best ODS=0.781 which is higher than the performance of ODS=0.766 for HED, as shown in Fig. Among those end-to-end methods, fully convolutional networks[34] scale well up to the image size but cannot produce very accurate labeling boundaries; unpooling layers help deconvolutional networks[38] to generate better label localization but their symmetric structure introduces a heavy decoder network which is difficult to train with limited samples. CEDN works well on unseen classes that are not prevalent in the PASCAL VOC training set, such as sports. dataset (ODS F-score of 0.788), the PASCAL VOC2012 dataset (ODS F-score of tentials in both the encoder and decoder are not fully lever-aged. They formulate a CRF model to integrate various cues: color, position, edges, surface orientation and depth estimates. Recent works, HED[19] and CEDN[13], which have achieved the best performances on the BSDS500 dataset, are two baselines which our method was compared to. As a result, the trained model yielded high precision on PASCAL VOC and BSDS500, and has achieved comparable performance with the state-of-the-art on BSDS500 after fine-tuning. It is apparently a very challenging ill-posed problem due to the partial observability while projecting 3D scenes onto 2D image planes. K.E.A. vande Sande, J.R.R. Uijlingsy, T.Gevers, and A.W.M. Smeulders. In this section, we describe our contour detection method with the proposed top-down fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. The main problem with filter based methods is that they only look at the color or brightness differences between adjacent pixels but cannot tell the texture differences in a larger receptive field. The upsampling process is conducted stepwise with a refined module which differs from previous unpooling/deconvolution[24] and max-pooling indices[25] technologies, which will be described in details in SectionIII-B. Ganin et al. The combining process can be stack step-by-step. Please follow the instructions below to run the code. The proposed soiling coverage decoder is an order of magnitude faster than an equivalent segmentation decoder. Wu et al. A tag already exists with the provided branch name. This is the code for arXiv paper Object Contour Detection with a Fully Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network by Jimei Yang, Brian Price, Scott Cohen, Honglak Lee and Ming-Hsuan Yang, 2016. Contour and texture analysis for image segmentation. 2016, 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Continue Reading. Inspired by the success of fully convolutional networks [36] and deconvolu-tional networks [40] on semantic segmentation, we develop a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network (CEDN). Different from the original network, we apply the BN[28] layer to reduce the internal covariate shift between each convolutional layer and the ReLU[29] layer. A deep learning algorithm for contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network that generalizes well to unseen object classes from the same supercategories on MS COCO and can match state-of-the-art edge detection on BSDS500 with fine-tuning. edges, in, V.Ferrari, L.Fevrier, F.Jurie, and C.Schmid, Groups of adjacent contour 9 Aug 2016, serre-lab/hgru_share With the further contribution of Hariharan et al. Kontschieder et al. aware fusion network for RGB-D salient object detection. A.Karpathy, A.Khosla, M.Bernstein, N.Srivastava, G.E. Hinton, A.Krizhevsky, I.Sutskever, and R.Salakhutdinov, Although they consider object instance contours while collecting annotations, they choose to ignore the occlusion boundaries between object instances from the same class. A fully convolutional encoder-decoder network is proposed to detect the general object contours [10]. There are several previously researched deep learning-based crop disease diagnosis solutions. At the core of segmented object proposal algorithms is contour detection and superpixel segmentation. We use the layers up to pool5 from the VGG-16 net[27] as the encoder network. Constrained parametric min-cuts for automatic object segmentation. We train the network using Caffe[23]. As combining bottom-up edges with object detector output, their method can be extended to object instance contours but might encounter challenges of generalizing to unseen object classes. 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