SSAV

Code for paper in CVPR2019, 'Shifting More Attention to Video Salient Object Detection', Deng-Ping Fan, Wenguan Wang, Ming-Ming Cheng, Jianbing Shen.

Contact: Deng-Ping Fan, Email: dengpingfan@mail.nankai.edu.cn

Abstract The last decade has witnessed a growing interest in video salient object detection (VSOD). However, the research community long-term lacked a well-established VSOD dataset representative of real dynamic scenes with high-quality annotations. To address this issue, we elaborately collected a visual-attention-consistent Densely Annotated VSOD (DAVSOD) dataset, which contains 226 videos with 23,938 frames that cover diverse realistic-scenes, objects, instances and motions. With corresponding real human eye-fixation data, we obtain precise ground-truths. This is the first work that explicitly emphasizes the challenge of saliency shift, i.e., the video salient object(s) may dynamically change. To further contribute the community a complete benchmark, we systematically assess 17 representative VSOD algorithms over seven existing VSOD datasets and our DAVSOD with totally ~84K frames (largest-scale). Utilizing three famous metrics, we then present a comprehensive and insightful performance analysis. Furthermore, we propose a baseline model. It is equipped with a saliencyshift-aware convLSTM, which can efficiently capture video saliency dynamics through learning human attention-shift behavior. Extensive experiments1 open up promising future directions for model development and comparison.

pre-computed saliency maps: http://dpfan.net/DAVSOD/.

Usage

1. Clone this repo into your computer

git clone https://github.com/DengPingFan/DAVSOD.git

2. Cd to DAVSOD/mycaffe-convlstm, follow the official instructions to build caffe. We provide our make file Makefile.config in folder DAVSOD/mycaffe-convlstm.

The code has been tested successfully on Ubuntu 16.04 with CUDA 8.0 and OpenCV 3.1.0

3. Make 'caffe'

make all -j8

4. Make 'pycaffe'

make pycaffe

5. Download pretrained caffemodel from my homepage or directly from [baidu pan](Fetch Code: pb0h)/ [google drive] and extract the .zip file under the root directory DAVSOD/model/. If you want to train the model start from scratch, you can download the basemodel from [baidu pan](Fetch Code:0xk4) or [google drive]

6. Put the test image in DAVSOD/Datasets/ and run generateTestList.py to get the test list. Then run SSAV_test.py to get the saliency maps. The results will be saved in DAVSOD/results/SSAV/.

7. You can also evaluate the model performance (S-measure[1], E-measure[2], F-measure and MAE) using our one-key matlab code main.m in DAVSOD/EvaluateTool/ directory.

[1]Structure-measure: A New Way to Evaluate the Foregournd Maps, ICCV2017, spotlight.

[2]Enhanced Alignment Measure for Binary Foreground Map Evaluation, IJCAI2018, Oral.

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Note that: This version only provide the implicit manner for learning attention-shift. The explicit way to train this model will not be released due to the commercial purposes (Hua Wei, IIAI).

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Related Citations (BibTeX)

If you find this useful, please cite the related works as follows:

@InProceedings{Fan_2019_CVPR,
   author = {Fan, Deng-Ping and Wang, Wenguan and Cheng, Ming-Ming and Shen, Jianbing}, 
   title = {Shifting More Attention to Video Salient Object Detection},
   booktitle = {IEEE CVPR},
   year = {2019}
}

@InProceedings{Wang_2018_CVPR,
	author = {Wang, Wenguan and Shen, Jianbing and Guo, Fang and Cheng, Ming-Ming and Borji, Ali},
	title = {Revisiting Video Saliency: A Large-Scale Benchmark and a New Model},
	booktitle = {IEEE CVPR},
	year = {2018}
}

@inproceedings{song2018pyramid,
  title={Pyramid dilated deeper ConvLSTM for video salient object detection},
  author={Song, Hongmei and Wang, Wenguan and Zhao, Sanyuan and Shen, Jianbing and Lam, Kin-Man},
  booktitle={ECCV},
  pages={715--731},
  year={2018}
}

##License

Copyright (c) 2019, Deng-Ping Fan
All rights reserved.

This code is for academic communication only and not for commercial purposes. 
If you want to use for commercial please contact me.

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If you find any bugs, please contact Deng-Ping Fan (dengpingfan@mail.nankai.edu.cn).