A Lightweight Attention Network for Camouflaged Object Fixation Prediction

This paper proposes a novel encoder-decoder architecture for camouflaged object fixation prediction (COFP), which builds on a large-kernel decomposition technique and depth-wise separable convolution embedded attention. Specifically, the encoder with the large-kernel decomposition adopts a Visual Attention Network (VAN) as the backbone to extract more accurate features, and the decoder predicts fixation maps from concealed objects using the attention module incorporating depth-wise separable convolution. Both designs aim to reduce the number of learnable parameters, making the model lighter and simultaneously maintaining the performance of COFP. In addition, we propose using the reverse Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KLDiv) as the loss function. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method performs well against SOTA approaches in quality and quantity.