Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (9): 2707-2715.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2022.09.02

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A method of camouflaged object segmentation with locating and asymmetric compensation

Yifei XU1,2, Xiaodong LI2, Xinde LI1,3,*   

  1. 1. School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
    2. Science and Technology on Information System Engineering Laboratory, Nanjing 210000, China
    3. Nanjing Center for Applied Mathematics, Nanjing 211135, China
  • Received:2021-11-19 Online:2022-09-01 Published:2022-09-09
  • Contact: Xinde LI

Abstract:

Camouflage is the instinct to deceive the perception of the observer, which presents the high similarity of the textural characteristics with the surroundings. In order to address the ambiguous regions generated by the similarity between background and foreground, this paper proposes a camouflaged object segmentation network based on locating and compensation network (LCNet). Inspired by predator process: Search→Establish→Focusing, the paradigm of the proposed method is achieved via dual-backbone with the strong sense of knowledge extraction, locating module with double attention, and cascading asymmetric compensation module with pixel refining. Experimental results have shown that the performances of LCNet are superior than six state-of-the-art models at the three major challenging camouflaged datasets in terms of four metrics, and the effectiveness of LCNet is demonstrated.

Key words: textural camouflaged object, asymmetric attention compensation, double attention locating, dual-backbone

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