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Detecting and segmenting salient objects from natural scenes, often referred to as salient object detection, has attracted great interest in computer vision. While many models have been proposed and several applications have emerged, a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Ali Borji , Ming-Ming Cheng , Qibin Hou , Huaizu Jiang , Jia Li

Deep learning solutions of the salient object detection problem have achieved great results in recent years. The majority of these models are based on encoders and decoders, with a different multi-feature combination. In this paper, we show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Hazarapet Tunanyan

The prediction of salient areas in images has been traditionally addressed with hand-crafted features based on neuroscience principles. This paper, however, addresses the problem with a completely data-driven approach by training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Junting Pan , Kevin McGuinness , Elisa Sayrol , Noel O'Connor , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Salient object detection has become an important task in many image processing applications. The existing approaches exploit background prior and contrast prior to attain state of the art results. In this paper, instead of using background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Sai Srivatsa R , R. Venkatesh Babu

By integrating complementary information from RGB image and depth map, the ability of salient object detection (SOD) for complex and challenging scenes can be improved. In recent years, the important role of Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Runmin Cong , Hongyu Liu , Chen Zhang , Wei Zhang , Feng Zheng , Ran Song , Sam Kwong

Most existing salient object detection (SOD) models are difficult to apply due to the complex and huge model structures. Although some lightweight models are proposed, the accuracy is barely satisfactory. In this paper, we design a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jin Zhang , Qiuwei Liang , Yanjiao Shi

Existing RGB-D SOD methods mainly rely on a symmetric two-stream CNN-based network to extract RGB and depth channel features separately. However, there are two problems with the symmetric conventional network structure: first, the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Chang Liu , Gang Yang , Shuo Wang , Hangxu Wang , Yunhua Zhang , Yutao Wang

Segmenting salient objects in an image is an important vision task with ubiquitous applications. The problem becomes more challenging in the presence of a cluttered and textured background, low resolution and/or low contrast images. Even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Anuj Pahuja , Avishek Majumder , Anirban Chakraborty , R. Venkatesh Babu

The objective of hyperspectral remote sensing image salient object detection (HRSI-SOD) is to identify objects or regions that exhibit distinct spectrum contrasts with the background. This area holds significant promise for practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Peifu Liu , Huiyan Bai , Tingfa Xu , Jihui Wang , Huan Chen , Jianan Li

Salient object detection (SOD), which aims to find the most important region of interest and segment the relevant object/item in that area, is an important yet challenging vision task. This problem is inspired by the fact that human seems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Pingping Zhang , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

Recent salient object detection (SOD) methods aim to improve performance in four key directions: semantic enhancement, boundary refinement, auxiliary task supervision, and multi-modal fusion. In pursuit of continuous gains, these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yu Zhang , Haoan Ping , Yuchen Li , Zhenshan Bing , Fuchun Sun , Alois Knoll

Salient object detection (SOD) in optical remote sensing images (ORSIs) faces numerous challenges, including significant variations in target scales and low contrast between targets and the background. Existing methods based on vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Mengyu Ren , Yutong Li , Hua Li , Chuhong Wang , Runmin Cong

Since the wide employment of deep learning frameworks in video salient object detection, the accuracy of the recent approaches has made stunning progress. These approaches mainly adopt the sequential modules, based on optical flow or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Yi Tang , Yuanman Li , Wenbin Zou

The diverse spatial resolutions, various object types, scales and orientations, and cluttered backgrounds in optical remote sensing images (RSIs) challenge the current salient object detection (SOD) approaches. It is commonly unsatisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Chongyi Li , Runmin Cong , Chunle Guo , Hua Li , Chunjie Zhang , Feng Zheng , Yao Zhao

Recognizing objects and scenes are two challenging but essential tasks in image understanding. In particular, the use of RGB-D sensors in handling these tasks has emerged as an important area of focus for better visual understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Ali Caglayan , Nevrez Imamoglu , Ahmet Burak Can , Ryosuke Nakamura

Transformer-based methods for RGB-D Salient Object Detection (SOD) have gained significant interest, owing to the transformer's exceptional capacity to capture long-range pixel dependencies. Nevertheless, current RGB-D SOD methods face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jianlin Chen , Gongyang Li , Zhijiang Zhang , Liang Chang , Dan Zeng

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved competitive performance in salient object detection, in which how to learn effective and comprehensive features plays a critical role. Most of the previous works mainly adopted multiple level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zuyao Chen , Qianqian Xu , Runmin Cong , Qingming Huang

We present an effective method to progressively integrate and refine the cross-modality complementarities for RGB-D salient object detection (SOD). The proposed network mainly solves two challenging issues: 1) how to effectively integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Chongyi Li , Runmin Cong , Yongri Piao , Qianqian Xu , Chen Change Loy

This paper proposes an Agile Aggregating Multi-Level feaTure framework (Agile Amulet) for salient object detection. The Agile Amulet builds on previous works to predict saliency maps using multi-level convolutional features. Compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Pingping Zhang , Luyao Wang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

Occlusion edges in images which correspond to range discontinuity in the scene from the point of view of the observer are an important prerequisite for many vision and mobile robot tasks. Although they can be extracted from range data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Soumik Sarkar , Vivek Venugopalan , Kishore Reddy , Michael Giering , Julian Ryde , Navdeep Jaitly