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RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) has gained more and more research interest in recent years. Due to various imaging mechanisms of RGB and depth modalities, RGB-D images contain different information. Thus, how to effectively fuse multi-modality features and aggregate multi-scale features to generate accurate saliency prediction are still the problems. In this article, we present a Multi-Modality Information Refinement Fusion Network (MIRFNet) for RGB-D SOD to solve the problems. Specifically, a Feature-Enhancement and Cross-Refinement Module (FCM) is proposed to reduce redundant features and the gap between cross-modality data to achieve multi-modality feature fusion effectively. In FCM, the Feature-Enhancement step utilizes attention mechanisms to obtain enhanced features which contain less redundant information and more common salient information, and the Cross-Refinement step employs the enhanced features to reduce the gap between cross-modality features and achieve effective feature fusion. Then, we propose an Edge Guidance Module (EGM) to extract edge information from RGB features. Finally, to effectively aggregate multi-level features and achieve accurate saliency prediction, a Feature-Aggregation and Edge-Refinement Module (FEM) is designed, which introduces specific-modality information and edge information to conduct sufficient information interaction. In FEM, the Feature-Aggregation step aggregates multi-scale features with specific-modality information, and the Edge-Refinement step uses edge information to refine the aggregation features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MIRFNet can achieve comparable performance against the other 12 SOTA methods on five datasets.
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Bao, H., Fan, B. Multi-modality information refinement fusion network for RGB-D salient object detection. Vis Comput 40, 4183–4199 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-023-03076-6
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