FOCUS: Towards Universal Foreground Segmentation

Foreground segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, encompassing various subdivision tasks. Previous research has typically designed task-specific architectures for each task, leading to a lack of unification. Moreover, they primarily focus on recognizing foreground objects without effectively distinguishing them from the background. In this paper, we emphasize the importance of the background and its relationship with the foreground. We introduce FOCUS, the Foreground ObjeCts Universal Segmentation framework that can handle multiple foreground tasks. We develop a multi-scale semantic network using the edge information of objects to enhance image features. To achieve boundary-aware segmentation, we propose a novel distillation method, integrating the contrastive learning strategy to refine the prediction mask in multi-modal feature space. We conduct extensive experiments on a total of 13 datasets across 5 tasks, and the results demonstrate that FOCUS consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art task-specific models on most metrics.

Authors

• Zuyao You Shanghai Key Lab of Intell. Info. Processing, School of CS, Fudan University Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center of Intelligent Visual Computing
• Lingyu Kong Shanghai Key Lab of Intell. Info. Processing, School of CS, Fudan University
• Lingchen Meng Fudan University
• Zuxuan Wu Shanghai Key Lab of Intell. Info. Processing, School of CS, Fudan University Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center of Intelligent Visual Computing

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