Agile Amulet: Real-Time Salient Object Detection with Contextual Attention

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This paper proposes an Agile Aggregating Multi-Level feaTure framework (Agile Amulet) for salient object detection.

• The Agile Amulet builds on previous works to predict saliency maps using multi-level convolutional features.
• Compared to previous works, Agile Amulet employs some key innovations to improve training and testing speed while also increase prediction accuracy.
• More specifically, we first introduce a contextual attention module that can rapidly highlight most salient objects or regions with contextual pyramids.