Boundary Cue Guidance and Contextual Feature Mining for Glass Segmentation

Glass is ubiquitous in the real world, and its perception has many applications, including robot navigation and drone tracking. However, due to the transparent property of glass, the interior of a glass area can be any surrounding scene or object, which brings challenges for computer vision. Inspired by the human senses, boundary cues are one of the crucial factors for people to judge the location of glass contours. Hence, we propose a boundary cue guidance and contextual feature mining network (BCNet) to accurately and efficiently segment glass. Specifically, we first design a multi-branch boundary extraction module (MBEM) for learning accurate boundary cues combined with multi-level encoded features. Second, we propose a boundary cue guidance module (BCGM), inject the boundary cues into the representation learning, and provide constraints with object structure semantics to guide feature extraction. Besides, we design a contextual feature mining module (CFMM) to dynamically capture the contextual information of different receptive fields for the detection of different sizes and shapes of the glass. Finally, extensive experiments on two benchmark glass datasets, GDD and GSD. The results demonstrate that our BCNet achieves state-of-the-art segmentation performance against existing methods.