SalFBNet

This repository includes Pytorch implementation for the following paper:

SalFBNet: Learning Pseudo-Saliency Distribution via Feedback Convolutional Networks, IMAVIS 2022.
Guanqun Ding, Nevrez Imamoglu, Ali Caglayan, Masahiro Murakawa, Ryosuke Nakamura
(Paper) (arXiv)

Getting Started

1. Installation

You can install the envs mannually by following commands:

git clone https://github.com/gqding/SalFBNet.git
conda create -n salfbnet python=3.8
conda activate salfbnet
conda install pytorch torchvision cudatoolkit=11.3 -c pytorch
pip install scikit-learn scipy tensorboard tqdm
pip install torchSummaryX

Alternativaly, you can install the envs from yml file by

conda env create -f environment.yml

2. Downloads

• Our released SalFBNet models

  We released our pretrained SalFBNet models on Google Drive. The shared models initially trained on our Pseudo-Saliency Dataset, then fine tuned with SALICON and MIT1003 to be tested on MIT300 benchmark.

• Our SalFBNet Pseudo Saliency Dataset

  We released our PseudoSaliency dataset on this ABCI Datasets page;

  We also show how to use our dataset for model training on this Usage page.

• Our testing saliency results on public datasets

  You can download our testing saliency resutls from this Google Drive.

3. Run

After downloading the pretrained models, you can run the script by

sh run_test.sh

Alternativaly, you can modify the script for testing of different image folder and models (SalFBNet_Res18 or SalFBNet_Res18Fixed).

python main_test.py --model=pretrained_models/FBNet_Res18Fixed_best_model.pth \
--save_fold=./results_Res18Fixed/ \
--backbone=Res18Fixed \
--test_path=Datasets/PseudoSaliency/Images/ECSSD/images/

You can find results under the 'results_*' folder.

4. Datasets

Dataset	#Image	#Training	#Val.	#Testing	Size	URL	Paper
SALICON	20,000	10,000	5,000	5,000	~4GB	download link	paper
MIT300	300	-	-	300	~44.4MB	download link	paper
MIT1003	1003	900*	103*	-	~178.7MB	download link	paper
PASCAL-S	850	-	-	850	~108.3MB	download link	paper
DUT-OMRON	5,168	-	-	5,168	~151.8MB	download link	paper
TORONTO	120	-	-	120	~12.3MB	download link	paper
Pseudo-Saliency (Ours)	176,880	150,000	26,880	-	~24.2GB	download link	paper

• *Training and Validation sets are randomly split by this work (see Training list and Val list).
• We released our Pseudo-Saliency dataset on this ABCI Datasets page.

Performance Evaluation

1. Visulization Results

2. Testing Performance on DUT-OMRON, PASCAL-S, and TORONTO

3. Testing Performance on SALICON

Please check the leaderboard of SALICON2017 for more details.

Our model is shown with the user name "GQDing3".

4. Testing Performance on MIT300

Please check the leaderboard of MIT300 for more details.

Our SalFBNet model ranked in Second best with sAUC, CC, and SIM metrics (Screenshot from December 10, 2021).

5. Efficiency Comparison

Evaluation

We use the metric implementation from MIT Saliency Benchmark for performance evaluation.

Citation

Please cite the following papers if you use our data or codes in your research.

@article{ding2022salfbnet,
  title={SalFBNet: Learning pseudo-saliency distribution via feedback convolutional networks},
  author={Ding, Guanqun and {\.I}mamo{\u{g}}lu, Nevrez and Caglayan, Ali and Murakawa, Masahiro and Nakamura, Ryosuke},
  journal={Image and Vision Computing},
  pages={104395},
  year={2022},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

@inproceedings{ding2021fbnet,
  title={FBNet: FeedBack-Recursive CNN for Saliency Detection},
  author={Ding, Guanqun and {\.I}mamo{\u{g}}lu, Nevrez and Caglayan, Ali and Murakawa, Masahiro and Nakamura, Ryosuke},
  booktitle={2021 17th International Conference on Machine Vision and Applications (MVA)},
  pages={1--5},
  year={2021},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Acknowledgement

• Data Collection

  We collect color images from ImageNet and SOD datasets including CSSD, ECSSD, HKU-IS, MSRA-B, MSRA10K, THUR15K.

• Pseudo-Annotators

  We use 5 models as our Pseudo-Annotators, including DeepGazeIIE, UNISAL, MSINet, EMLNet, CASNetII.

  We appreciate their public datasets and codes.