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In this paper, we tackle the challenging task of unsupervised salient object detection (SOD) by leveraging spectral clustering on self-supervised features. We make the following contributions: (i) We revisit spectral clustering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Gyungin Shin , Samuel Albanie , Weidi Xie

Salient Object Detection (SOD) remains an essential yet underexplored task in the era of large-scale vision models. Although foundation models like SAM exhibit strong generalization, their potential for SOD is not fully realized, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Morteza Moradi , Mohammad Moradi , Simone Palazzo , Ali Borji , Concetto Spampinato

Video salient object detection (VSOD) is an important task in many vision applications. Reliable VSOD requires to simultaneously exploit the information from both the spatial domain and the temporal domain. Most of the existing algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Yi Tang , Yuanman Li , Guoliang Xing

This paper researches the unexplored task-point cloud salient object detection (SOD). Differing from SOD for images, we find the attention shift of point clouds may provoke saliency conflict, i.e., an object paradoxically belongs to salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Songlin Fan , Wei Gao , Ge Li

Salient Object Detection (SOD) is a popular and important topic aimed at precise detection and segmentation of the interesting regions in the images. We integrate the linguistic information into the vision-based U-Structure networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Yunqing Bao , Hang Dai , Abdulmotaleb Elsaddik

This paper addresses the challenge of deploying salient object detection (SOD) on resource-constrained devices with real-time performance. While recent advances in deep neural networks have improved SOD, existing top-leading models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhuo Su , Li Liu , Matthias Müller , Jiehua Zhang , Diana Wofk , Ming-Ming Cheng , Matti Pietikäinen

Salient object detection aims to locate objects that capture human attention within images. Previous approaches often pose this as a problem of image contrast analysis. In this work, we model an image as a hypergraph that utilizes a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Xi Li , Yao Li , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel

Most existing CNN-based salient object detection methods can identify local segmentation details like hair and animal fur, but often misinterpret the real saliency due to the lack of global contextual information caused by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Bo Xu , Guanze Liu , Han Huang , Cheng Lu , Yandong Guo

RGB-D salient object detection (SOD), aiming to highlight prominent regions of a given scene by jointly modeling RGB and depth information, is one of the challenging pixel-level prediction tasks. Recently, the dual-attention mechanism has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Kang Yi , Haoran Tang , Yumeng Li , Jing Xu , Jun Zhang

A key problem in salient object detection is how to effectively model the semantic properties of salient objects in a data-driven manner. In this paper, we propose a multi-task deep saliency model based on a fully convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Xi Li , Liming Zhao , Lina Wei , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang , Haibin Ling , Jingdong Wang

Typically, a salient object detection (SOD) model faces opposite requirements in processing object interiors and boundaries. The features of interiors should be invariant to strong appearance change so as to pop-out the salient object as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jinming Su , Jia Li , Yu Zhang , Changqun Xia , Yonghong Tian

RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) has been in the spotlight recently because it is an important preprocessing operation for various vision tasks. However, despite advances in deep learning-based methods, RGB-D SOD is still challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Minhyeok Lee , Chaewon Park , Suhwan Cho , Sangyoun Lee

Image-based salient object detection (SOD) has been extensively studied in the past decades. However, video-based SOD is much less explored since there lack large-scale video datasets within which salient objects are unambiguously defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Jia Li , Changqun Xia , Xiaowu Chen

RGB-thermal salient object detection (RGB-T SOD) aims to locate the common prominent objects of an aligned visible and thermal infrared image pair and accurately segment all the pixels belonging to those objects. It is promising in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Xiurong Jiang , Lin Zhu , Yifan Hou , Hui Tian

Salient object detection (SOD) in complex environments remains a challenging research topic. Most existing methods perform well in natural scenes with negligible noise, and tend to leverage multi-modal information (e.g., depth and infrared)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Quan Chen , Xiong Yang , Bolun Zheng , Rongfeng Lu , Xiaokai Yang , Qianyu Zhang , Yu Liu , Xiaofei Zhou

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

Existing state-of-the-art salient object detection networks rely on aggregating multi-level features of pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Compared to high-level features, low-level features contribute less to performance but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Zhe Wu , Li Su , Qingming Huang

While we enjoy the richness and informativeness of multimodal data, it also introduces interference and redundancy of information. To achieve optimal domain interpretation with limited resources, we propose CSDNet, a lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xiaotong Yu , Ruihan Xie , Zhihe Zhao , Chang-Wen Chen

Depth images and thermal images contain the spatial geometry information and surface temperature information, which can act as complementary information for the RGB modality. However, the quality of the depth and thermal images is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Liuxin Bao , Xiaofei Zhou , Xiankai Lu , Yaoqi Sun , Haibing Yin , Zhenghui Hu , Jiyong Zhang , Chenggang Yan

Salient object detection (SOD), a foundational task in computer vision, has advanced from single-modal to multi-modal paradigms to enhance generalization. However, most existing SOD methods assume low-noise visual conditions, overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Quan Chen , Xiaokai Yang , Tingyu Wang , Rongfeng Lu , Xichun Sheng , Yaoqi Sun , Chenggang Yan