articleIEEE Transactions on Image ProcessingJan 1, 2023Closed access

LSNet: Lightweight Spatial Boosting Network for Detecting Salient Objects in RGB-Thermal Images

Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Nanyang Technological University · +3 more institutions

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Abstract

Most recent methods for RGB (red-green-blue)-thermal salient object detection (SOD) involve several floating-point operations and have numerous parameters, resulting in slow inference, especially on common processors, and impeding their deployment on mobile devices for practical applications. To address these problems, we propose a lightweight spatial boosting network (LSNet) for efficient RGB-thermal SOD with a lightweight MobileNetV2 backbone to replace a conventional backbone (e.g., VGG, ResNet). To improve feature extraction using a lightweight backbone, we propose a boundary boosting algorithm that optimizes the predicted saliency maps and reduces information collapse in low-dimensional features. The…

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