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

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![examples](https://github.com/MarkMoHR/Awesome-Edge-Detection-Papers/blob/master/edge-detection.png)

**Outline**

- [Edge detection related dataset](#0-edge-detection-related-dataset)
- [Deep-learning based approaches](#1-deep-learning-based-approaches)
  - [General edge detection](#11-general-edge-detection)
  - [Object contour detection](#12-object-contour-detection)
  - [Semantic edge detection (Category-Aware)](#13-semantic-edge-detection-category-aware)
  - [Occlusion boundary detection](#14-occlusion-boundary-detection)
  - [Edge detection from multi-frames](#15-edge-detection-from-multi-frames)
- [Traditional approaches](#2-traditional-approaches)
- [[Misc] Useful Links](#3-useful-links)

## 0. Edge detection related dataset

| Short name | Source Paper | Source | Introduction |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [BSDS500](https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/CS/vision/grouping/resources.html) | [Contour Detection and Hierarchical Image Segmentation](https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/CS/vision/grouping/papers/amfm_pami2010.pdf) | TPAMI 2011 | Classical edge detaction dataset. |
| [NYUDv2](https://github.com/s-gupta/rgbd#notes) | [Perceptual Organization and Recognition of Indoor Scenes from RGB-D Images](https://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_cvpr_2013/papers/Gupta_Perceptual_Organization_and_2013_CVPR_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2013 | Edges come from the boundary of annotated segmentation mask. |
| [Multi-cue](https://serre-lab.clps.brown.edu/resource/multicue/) | [A systematic comparison between visual cues for boundary detection](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26748113/) | Vision research 2016 | With boundary annotations. |
| [Wireframe](https://github.com/cherubicxn/hawp#data-preparation) | [Holistically-Attracted Wireframe Parsing](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.01663) | CVPR 2020 | Edges come from the annotated wireframe. |

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## 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](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12892) | AAAI 2025 | [[code]](https://github.com/Star-xing1/SAUGE) |
| RankED | [RankED: Addressing Imbalance and Uncertainty in Edge Detection Using Ranking-based Losses](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2024/papers/Cetinkaya_RankED_Addressing_Imbalance_and_Uncertainty_in_Edge_Detection_Using_Ranking-based_CVPR_2024_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2024 | [[webpage]](https://ranked-cvpr24.github.io/) |
| MuGE | [MuGE: Multiple Granularity Edge Detection](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2024/papers/Zhou_MuGE_Multiple_Granularity_Edge_Detection_CVPR_2024_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2024 |  |
| DiffusionEdge | [DiffusionEdge: Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Crisp Edge Detection](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02032) | AAAI 2024 | [[Code]](https://github.com/GuHuangAI/DiffusionEdge) |
| UAED | [The Treasure Beneath Multiple Annotations: An Uncertainty-aware Edge Detector](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11828) | CVPR 2023 | [[Code]](https://github.com/ZhouCX117/UAED) |
| EDTER | [EDTER: Edge Detection with Transformer](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2022/papers/Pu_EDTER_Edge_Detection_With_Transformer_CVPR_2022_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2022 | [[Code]](https://github.com/MengyangPu/EDTER) |
| pidinet | [Pixel Difference Networks for Efficient Edge Detection](https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07009) | ICCV 2021 | [[Code]](https://github.com/zhuoinoulu/pidinet) |
| DSCD | [Deep Structural Contour Detection](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3394171.3413750) | ACM MM 2020 |  |
| DexiNed | [Dense Extreme Inception Network: Towards a Robust CNN Model for Edge Detection](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.01955.pdf) | WACV 2020 | [[Code]](https://github.com/xavysp/DexiNed)  |
| BDCN | [Bi-Directional Cascade Network for Perceptual Edge Detection](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.10903.pdf) | CVPR 2019 | [[code]](https://github.com/pkuCactus/BDCN) |
| RCN | [Object Contour and Edge Detection with RefineContourNet](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-29888-3_20) | CAIP 2019 | [[code]](https://github.com/AndreKelm/RefineContourNet) |
| LPCB | [Learning to Predict Crisp Boundaries](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ECCV_2018/papers/Ruoxi_Deng_Learning_to_Predict_ECCV_2018_paper.pdf) | ECCV 2018 |  |
| AMH-Net | [Learning Deep Structured Multi-Scale Features using Attention-Gated CRFs for Contour Prediction](https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6985-learning-deep-structured-multi-scale-features-using-attention-gated-crfs-for-contour-prediction.pdf) | NIPS 2017 | [[code]](https://github.com/danxuhk/AttentionGatedMulti-ScaleFeatureLearning) |
| RCF | [Richer Convolutional Features for Edge Detection](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2017/papers/Liu_Richer_Convolutional_Features_CVPR_2017_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2017 | [[code-caffe]](https://github.com/yun-liu/rcf) [[code-pytorch]](https://github.com/meteorshowers/RCF-pytorch) [[project]](https://mmcheng.net/zh/rcfEdge/) |
| CED | [Deep Crisp Boundaries](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2017/papers/Wang_Deep_Crisp_Boundaries_CVPR_2017_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2017 | [[code]](https://github.com/Wangyupei/CED) |
| COB | [Convolutional Oriented Boundaries](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.02755.pdf) | ECCV 2016 | [[code]](https://github.com/kmaninis/COB) [[project]](http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~cvlsegmentation/cob/index.html) |
| RDS | [Learning Relaxed Deep Supervision for Better Edge Detection](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2016/papers/Liu_Learning_Relaxed_Deep_CVPR_2016_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2016 |  |
| HFL | [High-for-Low and Low-for-High: Efficient Boundary Detection from Deep Object Features and its Applications to High-Level Vision](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_iccv_2015/papers/Bertasius_High-for-Low_and_Low-for-High_ICCV_2015_paper.pdf) | ICCV 2015 |  |
| HED | [Holistically-Nested Edge Detection](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_iccv_2015/papers/Xie_Holistically-Nested_Edge_Detection_ICCV_2015_paper.pdf) | ICCV 2015 | [[code]](https://github.com/s9xie/hed) |
| DeepEdge | [DeepEdge: A Multi-Scale Bifurcated Deep Network for Top-Down Contour Detection](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2015/papers/Bertasius_DeepEdge_A_Multi-Scale_2015_CVPR_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2015 |  |
| DeepContour | [DeepContour: A Deep Convolutional Feature Learned by Positive-sharing Loss for Contour Detection](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2015/papers/Shen_DeepContour_A_Deep_2015_CVPR_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2015 | [[code]](https://github.com/shenwei1231/DeepContour) |

### 1.2 Object contour detection

| Short name | Paper | Source | Code/Project Link  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CEDN | [Object Contour Detection with a Fully Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2016/papers/Yang_Object_Contour_Detection_CVPR_2016_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2016 | [[code-caffe]](https://github.com/jimeiyang/objectContourDetector) [[code-TF]](https://github.com/Raj-08/tensorflow-object-contour-detection) |
|  | [Weakly Supervised Object Boundaries](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2016/papers/Khoreva_Weakly_Supervised_Object_CVPR_2016_paper.pdf) | 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](https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00616) | ICCV 2021 | [[code]](https://github.com/MengyangPu/RINDNet) |
| RPCNet | [Joint Semantic Segmentation and Boundary Detection using Iterative Pyramid Contexts](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2020/papers/Zhen_Joint_Semantic_Segmentation_and_Boundary_Detection_Using_Iterative_Pyramid_Contexts_CVPR_2020_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2020 | [[code]](https://github.com/mingminzhen/RPCNet) |
| DFF | [Dynamic Feature Fusion for Semantic Edge Detection](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.09104.pdf) | IJCAI 2019 | [[code]](https://github.com/Lavender105/DFF) |
| STEAL | [Devil is in the Edges: Learning Semantic Boundaries from Noisy Annotations](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.07934.pdf) | CVPR 2019 | [[code]](https://github.com/nv-tlabs/STEAL) [[project]](https://nv-tlabs.github.io/STEAL/) |
| SEAL | [Simultaneous Edge Alignment and Learning](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ECCV_2018/papers/Zhiding_Yu_SEAL_A_Framework_ECCV_2018_paper.pdf) | ECCV 2018 | [[code]](https://github.com/Chrisding/seal) |
| CASENet | [CASENet: Deep Category-Aware Semantic Edge Detection](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2017/papers/Yu_CASENet_Deep_Category-Aware_CVPR_2017_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2017 | [[code]](http://www.merl.com/research/license#CASENet) |
| `dataset` | [Semantic Contours from Inverse Detectors](https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/rg/papers/BharathICCV2011.pdf) | ICCV 2011 | [[code]](https://github.com/bharath272/semantic_contours) |

### 1.4 Occlusion boundary detection

| Short name | Paper | Source | Code/Project Link  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DOOBNet | [DOOBNet: Deep Object Occlusion Boundary Detection from an Image](https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03772) | ACCV 2018 | [[code]](https://github.com/GuoxiaWang/DOOBNet) |
| DOC & `dataset` | [DOC: Deep OCclusion Estimation From a Single Image](https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06457) | ECCV 2016 | [[code]](https://github.com/pengwangucla/DOC) |
|  | [Occlusion Boundary Detection via Deep Exploration of Context](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2016/papers/Fu_Occlusion_Boundary_Detection_CVPR_2016_paper.pdf) | 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](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Lei_Boundary_Flow_A_CVPR_2018_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2018 |  |
| LEGO | [LEGO: Learning Edge with Geometry all at Once by Watching Videos](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Yang_LEGO_Learning_Edge_CVPR_2018_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2018 | [[code]](https://github.com/zhenheny/LEGO) |
|  | [Unsupervised Learning of Edges](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2016/papers/Li_Unsupervised_Learning_of_CVPR_2016_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2016 | [[code]](https://github.com/happyharrycn/unsupervised_edges) |

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## 2. Traditional approaches

| Short name | Paper | Source | Code/Project Link  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SemiContour | [SemiContour: A Semi-supervised Learning Approach for Contour Detection](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2016/papers/Zhang_SemiContour_A_Semi-Supervised_CVPR_2016_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2016 |  |
| OEF | [Oriented Edge Forests for Boundary Detection](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2015/papers/Hallman_Oriented_Edge_Forests_2015_CVPR_paper.pdf) |  CVPR 2015 | [[code]](https://github.com/samhallman/oef) |
| SE | [Fast edge detection using structured forests](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.5549.pdf) | TPAMI 2015 | [[code]](https://github.com/pdollar/edges) |
| Edge Boxes | [Edge Boxes: Locating Object Proposals from Edges](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ZitnickDollarECCV14edgeBoxes.pdf) | ECCV 2014 | [[code]](https://github.com/pdollar/edges) |
| PMI | [Crisp Boundary Detection Using Pointwise Mutual Information](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-10578-9_52) | ECCV 2014 | [[code]](https://github.com/phillipi/crisp-boundaries) |
| Sketch Tokens | [Sketch tokens: A learned mid-level representation for contour and object detection](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2013/papers/Lim_Sketch_Tokens_A_2013_CVPR_paper.pdf) | CVPR 2013 |  |
| SCG | [Discriminatively Trained Sparse Code Gradients for Contour Detection](http://papers.nips.cc/paper/4787-discriminatively-trained-sparse-code-gradients-for-contour-detection.pdf) | NIPS 2012 |  |
| gPb-owt-ucm | [Contour Detection and Hierarchical Image Segmentation](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.374.3367&rep=rep1&type=pdf) | TPAMI 2011 | [[code]](http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/CS/vision/grouping/BSR/BSR_source.tgz) [[project]](https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/CS/vision/grouping/resources.html) |
| XDoG | [XDoG: advanced image stylization with eXtended Difference-of-Gaussians](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.648.990&rep=rep1&type=pdf) | NPAR 2011 | [[code(python)]](https://github.com/heitorrapela/xdog) <br/> [[online demo]](https://xdog.alexpeattie.com/) <br/>Others: [code(C++)](https://github.com/Sunwinds/xdog-demo) [code(matlab)](https://github.com/CemalUnal/XDoG-Filter) [code(Web APP)](https://github.com/alexpeattie/xdog-sketch) |
| FDoG | [Coherent Line Drawing](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.108.559&rep=rep1&type=pdf) | NPAR 2007 | [[code]](https://github.com/SSARCandy/Coherent-Line-Drawing) [[project]](https://ssarcandy.tw/Coherent-Line-Drawing/) |
| Canny | [A Computational Approach to Edge Detection](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.420.3300&rep=rep1&type=pdf) | TPAMI 1986 | [[code]](https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Canny_edge_detector) [[code-py]](https://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/py_tutorials/py_imgproc/py_canny/py_canny.html) |

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## 3. Useful Links

- Code to plot edge PR curves: [MCG-NKU/plot-edge-pr-curves](https://github.com/MCG-NKU/plot-edge-pr-curves)

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