Adaptive Linear Span Network for Object Skeleton Detection

Conventional networks for object skeleton detection are usually hand-crafted. Despite the effectiveness, hand-crafted network architectures lack the theoretical basis and require intensive prior knowledge to implement representation complementarity for objects/parts in different granularity. In this...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. - 1992. - 30(2021) vom: 24., Seite 5096-5108
1. Verfasser: Liu, Chang (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Tian, Yunjie, Chen, Zhiwen, Jiao, Jianbin, Ye, Qixiang
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:Conventional networks for object skeleton detection are usually hand-crafted. Despite the effectiveness, hand-crafted network architectures lack the theoretical basis and require intensive prior knowledge to implement representation complementarity for objects/parts in different granularity. In this paper, we propose an adaptive linear span network (AdaLSN), driven by neural architecture search (NAS), to automatically configure and integrate scale-aware features for object skeleton detection. AdaLSN is formulated with the theory of linear span, which provides one of the earliest explanations for multi-scale deep feature fusion. AdaLSN is materialized by defining a mixed unit-pyramid search space, which goes beyond many existing search spaces using unit-level or pyramid-level features. Within the mixed space, we apply genetic architecture search to jointly optimize unit-level operations and pyramid-level connections for adaptive feature space expansion. AdaLSN substantiates its versatility by achieving significantly higher accuracy and latency trade-off compared with the state-of-the-arts. It also demonstrates general applicability to image-to-mask tasks such as edge detection and road extraction. Code is available at https://github.com/sunsmarterjie/SDL-Skeletongithub.com/sunsmarterjie/SDL-Skeleton
Beschreibung:Date Completed 21.05.2021
Date Revised 21.05.2021
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0042
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2021.3078079