2016/03/15 by Brian Price, Yang, Jimei, Scott Cohen +6 · 3 citations
Computer Science · #Advanced Neural Network Applications #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Image and Object Detection Techniques #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1603.04530
openalex publication_date 2016/03/15 · openalex created_date 2019/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We develop a deep learning algorithm for contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. Different from previous low-level edge detection, our algorithm focuses on detecting higher-level object contours. 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. We find that the learned model generalizes well to unseen object classes from the same super-categories on MS COCO and can match state-of-the-art edge detection on BSDS500 with fine-tuning. 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).