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DenseASPP Enriched Residual Network Towards Visual Saliency Prediction

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Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP 2021)

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Predicting regions of interest, otherwise called salient regions tend to top out with the rise of deep learning techniques. Although convolutional neural networks have evaded the domain to let it reach newer heights, there still exists room for improvement on how to integrate the hierarchical features efficiently. In fact, the rich features at multiple spatial scales are found to be powerful towards accurate prediction. This paper proposes a novel end-to-end visual saliency prediction technique, based on DenseASPP (Dense Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling) and residual connections. It enriches the multi-scale contextual features via DenseASPP module, that gathers information via dense connections across multiple scales. Further, incorporation of residual connections between encoder and decoder blocks allow learning of more robust features that can result in better prediction. The model is trained on the largest dataset for saliency prediction, SALICON and experimental results on two public datasets, OSIE and PASCAL-S verify the effectiveness of the proposed framework compared with state-of-the-art results.

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Abraham, S.E., Kovoor, B.C. (2022). DenseASPP Enriched Residual Network Towards Visual Saliency Prediction. In: Raman, B., Murala, S., Chowdhury, A., Dhall, A., Goyal, P. (eds) Computer Vision and Image Processing. CVIP 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1568. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11349-9_8

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