High-Resolution Iterative Feedback Network for Camouflaged Object Detection

Abstract

Spotting camouflaged objects that are visually assimilated into the background is tricky for both object detection algorithms and humans who are usually confused or cheated by the perfectly intrinsic similarities between the foreground objects and the background surroundings. To tackle this challenge, we aim to extract the high-resolution texture details to avoid the detail degradation that causes blurred vision in edges and boundaries. We introduce a novel HitNet to refine the low-resolution representations by high-resolution features in an iterative feedback manner, essentially a global loop-based connection among the multi-scale resolutions. To design better feedback feature flow and avoid the feature corruption caused by recurrent path, an iterative feedback strategy is proposed to impose more constraints on each feedback connection. Extensive experiments on four challenging datasets demonstrate that our HitNet breaks the performance bottleneck and achieves significant improvements compared with 35 state-of-the-art methods. In addition, to address the data scarcity in camouflaged scenarios, we provide an application to convert the salient objects to camouflaged objects, thereby generating more camouflaged training samples from the diverse salient objects. Code will be made publicly available.