Delving into Salient Object Subitizing and Detection

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
Subtitle of host publication 
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Pages1059-1067
ISBN (print)9781538610329, 9781538610336
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2017

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ISSN (electronic)2380-7504

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Title16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2017
LocationVenice Convention Center
PlaceItaly
CityVenice
Period22 - 29 October 2017

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.

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Delving into Salient Object Subitizing and Detection. / He, Shengfeng; Jiao, Jianbo; Zhang, Xiaodan et al.
Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision:  . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 2017. p. 1059-1067 8237382.

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review