Jisuanji kexue yu tansuo (Dec 2022)

Survey of Camouflaged Object Detection Based on Deep Learning

  • SHI Caijuan, REN Bijuan, WANG Ziwen, YAN Jinwei, SHI Ze

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3778/j.issn.1673-9418.2206078
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 12
pp. 2734 – 2751

Abstract

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Camouflaged object detection (COD) based on deep learning is an emerging visual detection task, which aims to detect the camouflaged objects “perfectly” embedded in the surrounding environment. However, most exiting work primarily focuses on building different COD models with little summary work for the existing methods. Therefore, this paper summarizes the existing COD methods based on deep learning and discusses the future development of COD. Firstly, 23 existing COD models based on deep learning are introduced and analyzed according to five detection mechanisms: coarse-to-fine strategy, multi-task learning strategy, confidence-aware learning strategy, multi-source information fusion strategy and transformer-based strategy. The advantages and disadvantages of each strategy are analyzed in depth. And then, 4 widely used datasets and 4 evaluation metrics for COD are introduced. In addition, the performance of the existing COD models based on deep learning is compared on four datasets, including quantitative comparison, visual comparison, efficiency analysis, and the detection effects on camouflaged objects of different types. Furthermore, the practical applications of COD in medicine, industry, agriculture, military, art, etc. are mentioned. Finally, the deficiencies and challenges of existing methods in complex scenes, multi-scale objects, real-time performance, practical application requirements, and COD in other multimodalities are pointed out, and the potential directions of COD are discussed.

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