DENSE EXTREME

GROUP MEMBERS: INCEPTION

MURSAL JUNAID
REHMAN 22100158 NETWORK:
SARVECH QADIR TOWARDS A ROBUST
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CNN MODEL FOR
EDGE DETECTION
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

• Previous deep learning-based

approaches to detect edges trained on
already existing boundary detection or
object segmentation datasets.
• Datasets contain missing edges so after
training the predicted edge-maps lost
some edges in the images.
• Currently, these datasets are used just
for qualitative comparisons.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

• Edge detection is a recurrent task required for several

classical computer vision.
• Used in modern tasks such as image-to-image
translation and photo sketching.
• Also used in fields such as medical image analysis or
remote sensing.
AIM OF THIS PAPER

• A dataset with carefully annotated edges has been generated and released to the
community—BIPED: Barcelona Images for Perceptual Edge Detection.
• A robust CNN architecture for edge detection is proposed, referred to as DexiNed: Dense
Extreme Inception Network for Edge Detection. The model has been trained from the
scratch, without pretrained weights.
OVERVIEW OF BACKGROUND LITERATURE

Brain-biologically
Low level feature
inspiration

Classical learning Deep learning

algorithms algorithms
METHOD USED

Architecture of a Dense Extreme Inception Network

Upsampling block (UB)

Regression loss function

Dataset and annotations from BIPED images dataset is used

RESULTS

• Results are based on F-measure.

• The three versions of DexiNed get the
similar results
• DexiNed-dc upsampling results evaluated.
• The three diagrams are:
(a) DexiNed upsampling versions.
(b)Outputs of DexiNed in testing stage.
© Comparison of DexiNed with other
DL based edge detectors.
SHORTCOMINGS

• Not enough training dataset.

• Evaluation metrics penalize edges detected by DexiNed.
• The results are penalized as datasets are intended for objects’ boundary detection or
objects segmentation.
SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS

• Dataset for edge detection is shared.

• Contour and boundary detection problems
• Edge detection and contour/boundary detection are different problems.
Testing
Results from the proposed approach using different
datasets (note that DexiNed has been trained just with
BIPED.