An end-to-end neural network for detecting hidden people in images based on multiple attention network

Hendaoui R., NABIYEV V.

Multimedia Tools and Applications, cilt.81, sa.13, ss.18531-18542, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 81 Sayı: 13
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s11042-022-12118-5
  • Dergi Adı: Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, FRANCIS, ABI/INFORM, Applied Science & Technology Source, Compendex, Computer & Applied Sciences, INSPEC, zbMATH
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.18531-18542
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Hidden people, Visual attention, Neural network, Camouflage patterns
  • Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.Camouflaged people like soldiers on the battlefield or even camouflaged objects in the natural environments are hard to be detected because of the strong resemblances between the hidden target and the background. That’s why seeing these hidden objects is a challenging task. Due to the nature of hidden objects, identifying them require a significant level of visual perception. To overcome this problem, we present a new end-to-end framework via a multi-level attention network in this paper. We design a novel inception module to extract multi-scale receptive fields features aiming at enhancing feature representation. Furthermore, we use a dense feature pyramid taking advantage of multi-scale semantic features. At last, to locate and distinguish the camouflaged target better from the background, we develop a multi-attention module that generates more discriminative feature representation and combines semantic information with spatial information from different levels. Experiments on the camouflaged people dataset show that our approach outperformed all state-of-the-art methods.