English
Related papers

Related papers: Salient Object Detection: A Survey

200 papers

Foundation models, such as OpenAI's GPT-3 and GPT-4, Meta's LLaMA, and Google's PaLM2, have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence. A notable paradigm shift has been the advent of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), which has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ruikai Cui , Siyuan He , Shi Qiu

Compared with laborious pixel-wise dense labeling, it is much easier to label data by scribbles, which only costs 1$\sim$2 seconds to label one image. However, using scribble labels to learn salient object detection has not been explored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Jing Zhang , Xin Yu , Aixuan Li , Peipei Song , Bowen Liu , Yuchao Dai

Co-salient object detection (Co-SOD) aims to identify common salient objects across a group of related images. While recent methods have made notable progress, they typically rely on low-level visual patterns and lack semantic priors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jiayi Zhu , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yihao Huang , Yang Liu , Geguang Pu

Predicting attention is a popular topic at the intersection of human and computer vision. However, even though most of the available video saliency data sets and models claim to target human observers' fixations, they fail to differentiate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Mikhail Startsev , Michael Dorr

We present a learning model that makes full use of boundary information for salient object segmentation. Specifically, we come up with a novel loss function, i.e., Contour Loss, which leverages object contours to guide models to perceive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Zixuan Chen , Huajun Zhou , Xiaohua Xie , Jianhuang Lai

The existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) video salient object detection (VSOD) models have widely followed short-term methodology, which dynamically determines the balance between spatial and temporal saliency fusion by solely considering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Chenglizhao Chen , Hengsen Wang , Yuming Fang , Chong Peng

In this paper, we propose several novel deep learning methods for object saliency detection based on the powerful convolutional neural networks. In our approach, we use a gradient descent method to iteratively modify an input image based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Hengyue Pan , Bo Wang , Hui Jiang

Existing salient object detection methods are capable of predicting binary maps that highlight visually salient regions. However, these methods are limited in their ability to differentiate the relative importance of multiple objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Mengke Song , Linfeng Li , Dunquan Wu , Wenfeng Song , Chenglizhao Chen

Attention mechanisms are widely used in salient object detection models based on deep learning, which can effectively promote the extraction and utilization of useful information by neural networks. However, most of the existing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Shiping Zhu , Lanyun Zhu

Recent advances in the field of saliency have concentrated on fixation prediction, with benchmarks reaching saturation. However, there is an extensive body of works in psychology and neuroscience that describe aspects of human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Iuliia Kotseruba , Calden Wloka , Amir Rasouli , John K. Tsotsos

By the aid of attention mechanisms to weight the image features adaptively, recent advanced deep learning-based models encourage the predicted results to approximate the ground-truth masks with as large predictable areas as possible, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Jia Li , Jinming Su , Changqun Xia , Mingcan Ma , Yonghong Tian

This paper explores the size-invariance of evaluation metrics in Salient Object Detection (SOD), especially when multiple targets of diverse sizes co-exist in the same image. We observe that current metrics are size-sensitive, where larger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Feiran Li , Qianqian Xu , Shilong Bao , Zhiyong Yang , Runmin Cong , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Salient object detection plays an important part in a vision system to detect important regions. Convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods directly train their models with large-scale datasets, but what is the crucial feature for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Yongqing Liang

Conventional salient object detection models cannot differentiate the importance of different salient objects. Recently, two works have been proposed to detect saliency ranking by assigning different degrees of saliency to different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Nian Liu , Long Li , Wangbo Zhao , Junwei Han , Ling Shao

Saliency detection aims to detect the most attractive objects in images and is widely used as a foundation for various applications. In this paper, we propose a novel salient object detection algorithm for RGB-D images using center-dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Chunbiao Zhu , Wenhao Zhang , Thomas H. Li , Ge Li

In this paper, we will investigate the contribution of color names for the task of salient object detection. An input image is first converted to color name space, which is consisted of 11 probabilistic channels. By exploiting a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Jing Lou , Huan Wang , Longtao Chen , Fenglei Xu , Qingyuan Xia , Wei Zhu , Mingwu Ren

Autonomous driving is regarded as one of the most promising remedies to shield human beings from severe crashes. To this end, 3D object detection serves as the core basis of perception stack especially for the sake of path planning, motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Rui Qian , Xin Lai , Xirong Li

To detect salient objects accurately, existing methods usually design complex backbone network architectures to learn and fuse powerful features. However, the saliency inference module that performs saliency prediction from the fused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Zun Li , Congyan Lang , Yunpeng Chen , Junhao Liew , Jiashi Feng

Deep learning-based video salient object detection has recently achieved great success with its performance significantly outperforming any other unsupervised methods. However, existing data-driven approaches heavily rely on a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Pengxiang Yan , Guanbin Li , Yuan Xie , Zhen Li , Chuan Wang , Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin

Underwater Salient Object Detection (USOD) faces significant challenges, including underwater image quality degradation and domain gaps. Existing methods tend to ignore the physical principles of underwater imaging or simply treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Runting Li , Shijie Lian , Hua Li , Yutong Li , Wenhui Wu , Sam Kwong