FINet: Frequency Injection Network for Lightweight Camouflaged Object Detection

Existing camouflaged object detection (COD) methods typically have large model parameters and computations, hindering their deployment in real-world applications. Although using lightweight backbones can help alleviate this problem, their weaker feature representation often leads to performance degradation. To address this issue, we observe that frequency information has shown effective for cumbersome networks, but its effectiveness for lightweight ones has not been thoroughly investigated. Biological studies indicate that the human visual system utilizes distinct neural pathways to respond to different frequency stimuli, contributing to specialization and efficiency. Motivated by this, we propose an efficient frequency injection module (FIM) to aid lightweight backbone features by separately injecting detailed high frequency and object-level low frequency cues at each stage. FIM can be used as a plug-and-play component in existing COD networks to enhance backbone features at a low cost. With FIM, our proposed frequency injection network (FINet) achieves competitive performance against most state-ofthe- art methods with much faster speed (692FPS for the input size of 384 x 384) and fewer parameters (3.74M). Source codes will be released at https://github.com/crrcoo/FINet.