Mcfnet: a multi-scale cross-modal fusion network for RGB-D salient object detection
摘要
Salient object detection (SOD) seeks to determine the image regions that most prominently attract human visual attention, and these regions are generally represented using saliency maps. However, current approaches often suffer from inadequate interaction between modalities and overly intricate structural configurations. To overcome these challenges, we propose a Multi-scale Cross-modal Fusion Network (MCFNet) for RGB-D SOD tasks. Specifically, MCFNet adopts a dual-stream architecture and employs the Pyramid Vision Transformer V2 (PVTv2) as the encoder to capture multi-scale RGB and depth representations. For feature integration, we propose a Cross-modal Attention Module (CAM), which leverages multiplication and concatenation branches to enhance cross-modal consistency. Furthermore, a Dual-Branch Enhancement Block (DBEB) is introduced to strengthen the fused features while preserving fine details. Our network emphasizes structured architectural optimization, decoupling semantic alignment from complementary information integration. Comprehensive evaluation on six standard benchmark datasets confirms that MCFNet surpasses 16 state-of-the-art methods across four main metrics, thus proving the superiority and efficiency of the method. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/zhou-fighting/MCFNet.