GCA-Net: Global Cross Aware Network for salient object detection
Zixuan Zhang, Fan Shi, Xinbo Geng, Yi Tao, Jing He · 2023
In recent years, significant progress has been made in salient object detection. Nevertheless, there remains a need for further improvements in the effective combination of local and global perspectives. Combining global perception with the local focus can enhance the ability to capture the integrity of protruding objects while achieving accurate segmentation. In this paper, we introduce a newly proposed salient object detection network named GCA-Net, which is built upon three essential components. Firstly, we utilize atrous convolution to effectively aggregate contextual information and refine high-level semantic information via spatial pooling. Secondly, we employ 1-dim crossover operations to achieve global perception while minimizing computational effort. Lastly, We have innovatively integrated a contour-aware loss into our salient object detection task to constrain our model’s predictions, leading to more accurate segmentation. After evaluating our model on the established salient object detection benchmark dataset, we conducted extensive experiments to demonstrate the exceptional performance of our method. As a result, our method achieved 1st in both Sm and MAE.