MarkMoHR/Awesome-Edge-Detection-Papers

:books: A collection of edge/contour/boundary detection papers and toolbox.

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Awesome-Edge-Detection-Papers

A collection of edge detection papers and corresponding source code/demo program (a.k.a. contour detection or boundary detection).

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Outline

Edge detection related dataset
Deep-learning based approaches
Traditional approaches
[Misc] Useful Links

Short name	Source Paper	Source	Introduction
BSDS500	Contour Detection and Hierarchical Image Segmentation	TPAMI 2011	Classical edge detaction dataset.
NYUDv2	Perceptual Organization and Recognition of Indoor Scenes from RGB-D Images	CVPR 2013	Edges come from the boundary of annotated segmentation mask.
Multi-cue	A systematic comparison between visual cues for boundary detection	Vision research 2016	With boundary annotations.
Wireframe	Holistically-Attracted Wireframe Parsing	CVPR 2020	Edges come from the annotated wireframe.

1. Deep-learning based approaches

1.1 General edge detection

Short name	Paper	Source	Code/Project Link
SAUGE	SAUGE: Taming SAM for Uncertainty-Aligned Multi-Granularity Edge Detection	AAAI 2025	[code]
RankED	RankED: Addressing Imbalance and Uncertainty in Edge Detection Using Ranking-based Losses	CVPR 2024	[webpage]
MuGE	MuGE: Multiple Granularity Edge Detection	CVPR 2024
DiffusionEdge	DiffusionEdge: Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Crisp Edge Detection	AAAI 2024	[Code]
UAED	The Treasure Beneath Multiple Annotations: An Uncertainty-aware Edge Detector	CVPR 2023	[Code]
EDTER	EDTER: Edge Detection with Transformer	CVPR 2022	[Code]
pidinet	Pixel Difference Networks for Efficient Edge Detection	ICCV 2021	[Code]
DSCD	Deep Structural Contour Detection	ACM MM 2020
DexiNed	Dense Extreme Inception Network: Towards a Robust CNN Model for Edge Detection	WACV 2020	[Code]
BDCN	Bi-Directional Cascade Network for Perceptual Edge Detection	CVPR 2019	[code]
RCN	Object Contour and Edge Detection with RefineContourNet	CAIP 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
RINDNet	RINDNet: Edge Detection for Discontinuity in Reflectance, Illumination, Normal and Depth	ICCV 2021	[code]
RPCNet	Joint Semantic Segmentation and Boundary Detection using Iterative Pyramid Contexts	CVPR 2020	[code]
DFF	Dynamic Feature Fusion for Semantic Edge Detection	IJCAI 2019	[code]
STEAL	Devil is in the Edges: Learning Semantic Boundaries from Noisy Annotations	CVPR 2019	[code] [project]
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
DOOBNet	DOOBNet: Deep Object Occlusion Boundary Detection from an Image	ACCV 2018	[code]
DOC & `dataset`	DOC: Deep OCclusion Estimation From a Single Image	ECCV 2016	[code]
	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]

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(python)] [online demo] Others: code(C++) code(matlab) code(Web APP)
FDoG	Coherent Line Drawing	NPAR 2007	[code] [project]
Canny	A Computational Approach to Edge Detection	TPAMI 1986	[code] [code-py]

3. Useful Links

Code to plot edge PR curves: MCG-NKU/plot-edge-pr-curves

boundary-detection

contour-detection

contour-extraction

edge-detection

edge-detection-algorithms

edge-detection-papers

edge-detection-toolbox

edge-extraction

edge-toolbox

Contributors

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