深度学习论文笔记之（一）HED边缘检测

Abstract

• 创新点： 用cnn做edge detection (HED)，端到端
• 解决两个问题：
  1）holistic（整体的） image training and prediction;
  2）multi-scale and multi-level feature learning;
• 特点 ：
  
  1. 端到端：image-to-image
  2. 基于FCN和VGG 改进
  3. 通过多个side output输出不同scale的边缘，然后通过一个训练的权重融合函数得到最终的边缘输出。可以solve edge 和物体boundaries的ambiguity
• 工程主页：https://github.com/s9xie/hed

1 Introduction

典型的边缘检测工作：
I: early pioneering methods Sobel detector、Canny detector
II: information theory Statistical Edges [22], Pb [28], and gPb [1];
III:learning-based methods that remain reliant on features of human design, such as BEL [5], Multi-scale [30], Sketch Tokens [24], and Structured Edges [6]
IV:cnn N4-Fields [10], Deep- Contour [34], DeepEdge [2], and CSCNN [19].

We tackles two critical issues: (1) holistic image training and prediction, inspired by fully convolutional neural networks [26], for image-to-image classification (the system takes an image as input, and directly produces the edge map image as output); and (2) nested multi-scale feature learning, inspired by deeply-supervised nets [23], that performs deep layer supervision to “guide” early classification results.

2 Holistically-Nested Edge Detection

A recent wave of work using CNN for patch-based edge prediction [10, 34, 2, 19]基于三个方面：
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