ACNet: Mask-Aware Attention with Dynamic Context Enhancement for Robust Acne Detection

Kyungseo Min, Gun Hee Lee, Seong Whan Lee

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Abstract

Computer-aided diagnosis has recently received attention for its advantage of low cost and time efficiency. Although deep learning played a major role in the recent success of acne detection, there are still several challenges such as color shift by inconsistent illumination, variation in scales, and high density distribution. To address these problems, we propose an acne detection network which consists of three components, specifically: Composite Feature Refinement, Dynamic Context Enhancement, and Mask-Aware Multi-Attention. First, Composite Feature Refinement integrates semantic information and fine details to enrich feature representation, which mitigates the adverse impact of imbalanced illumination. Then, Dynamic Context Enhancement controls different receptive fields of multi-scale features for context enhancement to handle scale variation. Finally, Mask-Aware Multi-Attention detects densely arranged and small acne by suppressing uninformative regions and highlighting probable acne regions. Experiments are performed on acne image dataset ACNE04 and natural image dataset PASCAL VOC 2007. We demonstrate how our method achieves the state-of-the-art result on ACNE04 and competitive performance with previous state-of-the-art methods on the PASCAL VOC 2007.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2724-2729
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665442077
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2021 - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 2021 Oct 172021 Oct 20

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
ISSN (Print)1062-922X

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2021
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period21/10/1721/10/20

Keywords

  • Acne detection
  • Computer-aided diagnosis
  • Object detection

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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