Abstract
Subitizing (i.e., instant judgement on the number) and detection of salient objects are human inborn abilities. These two tasks influence each other in the human visual system. In this paper, we delve into the complementarity of these two tasks. We propose a multi-task deep neural network with weight prediction for salient object detection, where the parameters of an adaptive weight layer are dynamically determined by an auxiliary subitizing network. The numerical representation of salient objects is therefore embedded into the spatial representation. The proposed joint network can be trained end-to-end using backpropagation. Experiments show the proposed multi-task network outperforms existing multi-task architectures, and the auxiliary subitizing network provides strong guidance to salient object detection by reducing false positives and producing coherent saliency maps. Moreover, the proposed method is an unconstrained method able to handle images with/without salient objects. Finally, we show state-of-theart performance on different salient object datasets.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
Pages | 1059-1067 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781538610329 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781538610336 (PoD) |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 25 Dec 2017 |
Event | 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2017 - Venice, Italy Duration: 22 Oct 2017 → 29 Oct 2017 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision |
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Publisher | IEEE |
ISSN (Print) | 1550-5499 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2380-7504 |
Conference
Conference | 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2017 |
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Country/Territory | Italy |
City | Venice |
Period | 22/10/17 → 29/10/17 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 IEEE.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition