EDMB: Edge Detector with Mamba

Yachuan Li, Xavier Soria Poma, Yun Bai, Qian Xiao, Chaozhi Yang, Guanlin Li, Zongmin Li; Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025, pp. 7671-7680

Transformer-based models have made significant progress in edge detection but their high computational cost is prohibitive. Recently vision Mamba have shown excellent ability in efficiently capturing long-range dependencies. Drawing inspiration from this we propose a novel edge detector with Mamba termed EDMB to efficiently generate high-quality multi-granularity edges. In EDMB Mamba is combined with a global-local architecture therefore it can focus on both global information and fine-grained cues. The fine-grained cues play a crucial role in edge detection but are usually ignored by ordinary Mamba. We design a novel decoder to construct learnable Gaussian distributions by fusing global features and fine-grained features. And the multi-grained edges are generated by sampling from the distributions. In order to make multi-granularity edges applicable to single-label data we introduce Evidence Lower Bound loss to supervise the learning of the distributions. On the multi-label dataset BSDS500 our proposed EDMB achieves competitive single-granularity ODS 0.837 and multi-granularity ODS 0.851 without multi-scale test or extra PASCAL-VOC data. Remarkably EDMB can be extended to single-label datasets such as NYUDv2 and BIPED. The source code is available at https://github.com/Li-yachuan/EDMB.