Multi‐scale deep neural network for salient object detection

Abstract

Salient object detection is a fundamental problem and has been received a great deal of attention in computer vision. Recently, deep learning model became a powerful tool for image feature extraction. In this study, the authors propose a multi-scale deep neural network (MSDNN) for salient object detection. The proposed model first extracts global high-level features and context information over the whole source image with the recurrent convolutional neural network. Then several stacked deconvolutional layers are adopted to get the multi-scale feature representation and obtain a series of saliency maps. Finally, the authors investigate a fusion convolution module to build a final pixel level saliency map. The proposed model is extensively evaluated on six salient object detection benchmark datasets. Results show that the authors' deep model significantly outperforms other 12 state-of-the-art approaches.