Edge-Guided Multilevel Feature Fusion Network for Lightweight Camouflaged Object Detection
Xingpeng Zhang, Meilin Gao, Guohai Gao, Xin Wang, Qiuli Wang · 2024
Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to accurately recognize targets in intricate environments that blend into the background. Although numerous camouflage object identification techniques have demonstrated effectiveness, they often possess a substantial number of parameters. Therefore, we propose a new lightweight edge-guided multilevel feature fusion camouflaged object detection network, codenamed as LEMFNet. Initially, we adopt a lightweight CNN network model for feature extraction to reduce model complexity. Subsequently, we introduced a neighborhood feature association module (NFAM) to integrate feature information from different stages to obtain complementary feature representations and enhance the overall model performance. Furthermore, to obtain a more complete object structure, we introduce a boundary aggregation module (BAM) to delve into the edge semantics associated with the target and integrate the edge features into the proposed edge-guided aggregation module (EGAM). Experiments on three challenging benchmarks demonstrate our approach, with fewer parameters, achieves comparable or superior performance, effectively balancing resource utilization and accuracy.