Context-measure: Contextualizing Metric for Camouflage
Camouflage relies heavily on context, but current metrics used in camouflaged object segmentation ignore contextual cues. We identify two major drawbacks of these metrics: first, the Dimension Flaw - a predicted foreground map usually contains both pixel labels and probability scores, whereas ground truth provides only one-dimensional binary labels; second, the Range Flaw - these metrics struggle to capture full-range pixel dependencies. Thus, we propose Context-measure, a novel context-aware evaluation paradigm built on a probabilistic pixel correlation framework. It augments the ground truth with pixel-level contextual affinity and builds a perception cycle, achieving greater consistency with human perception. Extensive experiments using four meta-measures show that our Context-measure comprehensively outperforms all widely adopted metrics for camouflaged object segmentation. To our knowledge, this is the first metric designed for camouflaged scenarios. Code is available at https://github.com/pursuitxi/Context-measure.