MVSalNet: Multi-view Augmentation for RGB-D Salient Object Detection

Abstract

RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) enjoys significant advantages in understanding 3D geometry of the scene. However, the geometry information conveyed by depth maps are mostly under-explored in existing RGB-D SOD methods. In this paper, we propose a new framework to address this issue. We augment the input image with multiple different views rendered using the depth maps, and cast the conventional single-view RGB-D SOD into a multi-view setting. Since different views captures complementary context of the 3D scene, the accuracy can be significantly improved through multi-view aggregation. We further design a multi-view saliency detection network (MVSalNet), which firstly performs saliency prediction for each view separately and incorporates multi-view outputs through a fusion model to produce final saliency prediction. A dynamic filtering module is also designed to facilitate more effective and flexible feature extraction. Extensive experiments on 6 widely used datasets demonstrate that our approach compares favorably against state-of-the-art approaches.