DAGCN: Dynamic and Adaptive Graph Convolutional Network for Salient Object Detection

Deep-learning-based salient object detection (SOD) has achieved significant success in recent years. The SOD focuses on the context modeling of the scene information, and how to effectively model the context relationship in the scene is the key. However, it is difficult to build an effective context structure and model it. In this article, we propose a novel SOD method called dynamic and adaptive graph convolutional network (DAGCN) that is composed of two parts, adaptive neighborhood-wise graph convolutional network (AnwGCN) and spatially restricted K-nearest neighbors (SRKNN). The AnwGCN is novel adaptive neighborhood-wise graph convolution, which is used to model and analyze the saliency context. The SRKNN constructs the topological relationship of the saliency context by measuring the non-Euclidean spatial distance within a limited range. The proposed method constructs the context relationship as a topological graph by measuring the distance of the features in the non-Euclidean space, and conducts comparative modeling of context information through AnwGCN. The model has the ability to learn the metrics from features and can adapt to the hidden space distribution of the data. The description of the feature relationship is more accurate. Through the convolutional kernel adapted to the neighborhood, the model obtains the structure learning ability. Therefore, the graph convolution process can adapt to different graph data. Experimental results demonstrate that our solution achieves satisfactory performance on six widely used datasets and can also effectively detect camouflaged objects. Our code will be available at: https://github.com/CSIM-LUT/DAGCN.git.