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BBS-Net: RGB-D Salient Object Detection with a Bifurcated Backbone Strategy Network

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Multi-level feature fusion is a fundamental topic in computer vision for detecting, segmenting and classifying objects at various scales. When multi-level features meet multi-modal cues, the optimal fusion problem becomes a hot potato. In this paper, we make the first attempt to leverage the inherent multi-modal and multi-level nature of RGB-D salient object detection to develop a novel cascaded refinement network. In particular, we 1) propose a bifurcated backbone strategy (BBS) to split the multi-level features into teacher and student features, and 2) utilize a depth-enhanced module (DEM) to excavate informative parts of depth cues from the channel and spatial views. This fuses RGB and depth modalities in a complementary way. Our simple yet efficient architecture, dubbed Bifurcated Backbone Strategy Network (BBS-Net), is backbone independent and outperforms 18 SOTAs on seven challenging datasets using four metrics.

D.-P. Fan and Y. Zhai—Equal contributions.

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    Note that we use the terms ‘high-level features & low-level features’ and ‘teacher features & student features’ interchangeably.

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This work was supported by the Major Project for New Generation of AI Grant (NO. 2018AAA0100403), NSFC (NO. 61876094, U1933114), Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin, China (NO. 18JCYBJC15400, 18ZXZNGX00110), the Open Project Program of the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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  3. HCL America, Manhattan, NY, USA

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  4. Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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Fan, DP., Zhai, Y., Borji, A., Yang, J., Shao, L. (2020). BBS-Net: RGB-D Salient Object Detection with a Bifurcated Backbone Strategy Network. In: Vedaldi, A., Bischof, H., Brox, T., Frahm, JM. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2020. ECCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12357. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58610-2_17

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