• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 59, Issue 22, 2210006 (2022)
Xiao Liang1、2, Huiping Deng1、2、*, Sen Xiang1、2, and Jin Wu1、2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Information Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, Hubei, China
  • 2Engineering Research Center for Metallurgical Automation and Measurement Technology of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, Hubei, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP202259.2210006 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xiao Liang, Huiping Deng, Sen Xiang, Jin Wu. Saliency Detection of Light Field Image Based on Feature Fusion and Feedback Refinement[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2022, 59(22): 2210006 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The existing light field image saliency detection algorithms cannot effectively measure the focus information, resulting in an incomplete salient object, information redundancy, and blurred edges. Considering that different slices of the focal stack and the all-focus image play different roles in saliency prediction, this study combines the efficient channel attention (ECA) network and convolutional long short-term memory model (ConvLSTM) network to form a feature fusion network that adaptively fuse the features of the focal stack slices and all-focus images without reducing the dimension; then the feedback network composed of the cross feature module refines the information and eliminates the redundant information generated after the feature fusion; finally, the ECA network is used for weighing the high-level features to better highlight the saliency area to obtain a more accurate saliency map. The network proposed has F-measure and mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.871 and 0.049, respectively, in the most recent data set, which are significantly better than the existing red, green, and blue (RGB) images, red, green, blue, and depth (RGB-D) images, and light field images saliency detection algorithms. The experimental results show that the proposed network can effectively separate the foreground and background regions of the focal stack slices and produce a more accurate saliency map.
    Xiao Liang, Huiping Deng, Sen Xiang, Jin Wu. Saliency Detection of Light Field Image Based on Feature Fusion and Feedback Refinement[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2022, 59(22): 2210006
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