Awesome-Edge-Detection-Papers

A collection of edge detection papers (a.k.a. contour detection or boundary detection).

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Outline

• Deep-learning based approaches
  • General edge detection
  • Object contour detection
  • Semantic edge detection (Category-Aware)
  • Occlusion boundary detection
  • Edge detection from multi-frames
• Traditional approaches

1. Deep-learning based approaches

1.1 General edge detection

Short name	Paper	Source	Code/Project Link
BDCN	Bi-Directional Cascade Network for Perceptual Edge Detection	CVPR 2019	[code]
LPCB	Learning to Predict Crisp Boundaries	ECCV 2018
AMH-Net	Learning Deep Structured Multi-Scale Features using Attention-Gated CRFs for Contour Prediction	NIPS 2017	[code]
RCF	Richer Convolutional Features for Edge Detection	CVPR 2017	[code-caffe] [code-pytorch] [project]
CED	Deep Crisp Boundaries	CVPR 2017	[code]
COB	Convolutional Oriented Boundaries	ECCV 2016	[code] [project]
RDS	Learning Relaxed Deep Supervision for Better Edge Detection	CVPR 2016
HFL	High-for-Low and Low-for-High: Efficient Boundary Detection from Deep Object Features and its Applications to High-Level Vision	ICCV 2015
HED	Holistically-Nested Edge Detection	ICCV 2015	[code]
DeepEdge	DeepEdge: A Multi-Scale Bifurcated Deep Network for Top-Down Contour Detection	CVPR 2015
DeepContour	DeepContour: A Deep Convolutional Feature Learned by Positive-sharing Loss for Contour Detection	CVPR 2015	[code]

1.2 Object contour detection

Short name	Paper	Source	Code/Project Link
CEDN	Object Contour Detection with a Fully Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network	CVPR 2016	[code-caffe] [code-TF]
	Weakly Supervised Object Boundaries	CVPR 2016

1.3 Semantic edge detection (Category-Aware)

Short name	Paper	Source	Code/Project Link
STEAL	Devil is in the Edges: Learning Semantic Boundaries from Noisy Annotations	CVPR 2019	[project]
DFF	Dynamic Feature Fusion for Semantic Edge Detection	1902.09104
SEAL	Simultaneous Edge Alignment and Learning	ECCV 2018	[code]
CASENet	CASENet: Deep Category-Aware Semantic Edge Detection	CVPR 2017	[code]
dataset	Semantic Contours from Inverse Detectors	ICCV 2011	[code]

1.4 Occlusion boundary detection

Short name	Paper	Source	Code/Project Link
	Occlusion Boundary Detection via Deep Exploration of Context	CVPR 2016

1.5 Edge detection from multi-frames

Short name	Paper	Source	Code/Project Link
Boundary Flow	Boundary Flow: A Siamese Network that Predicts Boundary Motion without Training on Motion	CVPR 2018
LEGO	LEGO: Learning Edge with Geometry all at Once by Watching Videos	CVPR 2018	[code]
	Unsupervised Learning of Edges	CVPR 2016	[code]

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2. Traditional approaches

Short name	Paper	Source	Code/Project Link
SemiContour	SemiContour: A Semi-supervised Learning Approach for Contour Detection	CVPR 2016
OEF	Oriented Edge Forests for Boundary Detection	CVPR 2015	[code]
SE	Fast edge detection using structured forests	TPAMI 2015	[code]
Edge Boxes	Edge Boxes: Locating Object Proposals from Edges	ECCV 2014	[code]
PMI	Crisp Boundary Detection Using Pointwise Mutual Information	ECCV 2014	[code]
Sketch Tokens	Sketch tokens: A learned mid-level representation for contour and object detection	CVPR 2013
SCG	Discriminatively Trained Sparse Code Gradients for Contour Detection	NIPS 2012
gPb-owt-ucm	Contour Detection and Hierarchical Image Segmentation	TPAMI 2011	[code] [project]
XDoG	XDoG: advanced image stylization with eXtended Difference-of-Gaussians	NPAR 2011	[code]
FDoG	Coherent Line Drawing	NPAR 2007	[code] [project]
Canny	A Computational Approach to Edge Detection	TPAMI 1986	[code] [code-py]