Context-aware Cross-level Fusion Network for Camouflaged Object Detection

Yujia Sun, Geng Chen, Tao Zhou, Yi Zhang, Nian Liu

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Abstract

Camouflaged object detection (COD) is a challenging task due to the low boundary contrast between the object and its surroundings. In addition, the appearance of camouflaged objects varies significantly, e.g., object size and shape, aggravating the difficulties of accurate COD. In this paper, we propose a novel Context-aware Cross-level Fusion Network (C2F-Net) to address the challenging COD task. Specifically, we propose an Attention-induced Cross-level Fusion Module (ACFM) to integrate the multi-level features with informative attention coefficients. The fused features are then fed to the proposed Dual-branch Global Context Module (DGCM), which yields multi-scale feature representations for exploiting rich global context information. In C2F-Net, the two modules are conducted on high-level features using a cascaded manner. Extensive experiments on three widely used benchmark datasets demonstrate that our C2F-Net is an effective COD model and outperforms state-of-the-art models remarkably. Our code is publicly available at: https://github.com/thograce/C2FNet.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021
EditorsZhi-Hua Zhou
PublisherInternational Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
Pages1025-1031
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9780999241196
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Canada
Duration: 19 Aug 202127 Aug 2021

Publication series

NameIJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
ISSN (Print)1045-0823

Conference

Conference30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVirtual, Online
Period19/08/2127/08/21

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