Deep Texture-Aware Features for Camouflaged Object Detection
This work is significant for computer vision researchers working on object detection in challenging, camouflaged environments, offering a strong specific gain over existing methods.
This paper addresses camouflaged object detection by enhancing subtle texture differences between objects and backgrounds using multiple texture-aware refinement modules. Their method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on benchmark datasets.
Camouflaged object detection is a challenging task that aims to identify objects having similar texture to the surroundings. This paper presents to amplify the subtle texture difference between camouflaged objects and the background for camouflaged object detection by formulating multiple texture-aware refinement modules to learn the texture-aware features in a deep convolutional neural network. The texture-aware refinement module computes the covariance matrices of feature responses to extract the texture information, designs an affinity loss to learn a set of parameter maps that help to separate the texture between camouflaged objects and the background, and adopts a boundary-consistency loss to explore the object detail structures.We evaluate our network on the benchmark dataset for camouflaged object detection both qualitatively and quantitatively. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms various state-of-the-art methods by a large margin.