Holistically-nested edge detection

Saining Xie, Zhuowen Tu

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Abstract

We develop a new edge detection algorithm that addresses two critical issues in this long-standing vision problem: (1) holistic image training, and (2) multi-scale feature learning. Our proposed method, holistically-nested edge detection (HED), turns pixel-wise edge classification into image-to-image prediction by means of a deep learning model that leverages fully convolutional neural networks and deeply-supervised nets. HED automatically learns rich hierarchical representations (guided by deep supervision on side responses) that are crucially important in order to approach the human ability to resolve the challenging ambiguity in edge and object boundary detection. We significantly advance the state-of-the-art on the BSD500 dataset (ODS F-score of 0.782) and the NYU Depth dataset (ODS F-score of 0.746), and do so with an improved speed (0.4 second per image) that is orders of magnitude faster than recent CNN-based edge detection algorithms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2015 International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1395-1403
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781467383912
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 17 2015
Event15th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2015 - Santiago, Chile
Duration: Dec 11 2015Dec 18 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
Volume2015 International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2015
ISSN (Print)1550-5499

Other

Other15th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2015
Country/TerritoryChile
CitySantiago
Period12/11/1512/18/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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