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CoADNet: Collaborative Aggregation-and-Distribution Networks for Co-Salient Object Detection
Qijian Zhang · Runmin Cong · Junhui Hou · Chongyi Li · Yao Zhao

Mon Dec 07 09:00 PM -- 11:00 PM (PST) @ Poster Session 0 #100
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Co-Salient Object Detection (CoSOD) aims at discovering salient objects that repeatedly appear in a given query group containing two or more relevant images. One challenging issue is how to effectively capture co-saliency cues by modeling and exploiting inter-image relationships. In this paper, we present an end-to-end collaborative aggregation-and-distribution network (CoADNet) to capture both salient and repetitive visual patterns from multiple images. First, we integrate saliency priors into the backbone features to suppress the redundant background information through an online intra-saliency guidance structure. After that, we design a two-stage aggregate-and-distribute architecture to explore group-wise semantic interactions and produce the co-saliency features. In the first stage, we propose a group-attentional semantic aggregation module that models inter-image relationships to generate the group-wise semantic representations. In the second stage, we propose a gated group distribution module that adaptively distributes the learned group semantics to different individuals in a dynamic gating mechanism. Finally, we develop a group consistency preserving decoder tailored for the CoSOD task, which maintains group constraints during feature decoding to predict more consistent full-resolution co-saliency maps. The proposed CoADNet is evaluated on four prevailing CoSOD benchmark datasets, which demonstrates the remarkable performance improvement over ten state-of-the-art competitors.

Keywords: Learning Theory · Theory

Author Information

Qijian Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)
Runmin Cong (Beijing Jiaotong University)
Junhui Hou (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Chongyi Li ( Nanyang Technological University)
Yao Zhao (Beijing Jiaotong University)

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