Saliency Region Detection in Complex Scenes Based on Multi-scale Cascaded Attention

Abstract

This paper proposes a saliency detection method based on multi-scale cascade attention mechanism. It utilizes both channel and spatial weight attention mechanism to effectively learn the salient regions. By generating multi-scale intermediate feature maps, the shallow features are divided into categories of foreground and background. Then, the channel weights are calculated by using the foreground and background feature distribution, and the spatial weights are computed by using the predicted feature map, so that the network is more focused on salient regions and suppresses the interference of background regions. Experimental results show that the model can reliably and accurately detect salient targets and delivers better performance.