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Deep learning based salient object detection has recently achieved great success with its performance greatly outperforms any other unsupervised methods. However, annotating per-pixel saliency masks is a tedious and inefficient procedure.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Guanbin Li , Yuan Xie , Liang Lin

Salient Object Detection (SOD) methods can locate objects that stand out in an image, assign higher values to their pixels in a saliency map, and binarize the map outputting a predicted segmentation mask. A recent tendency is to investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Gilson Junior Soares , Matheus Abrantes Cerqueira , Jancarlo F. Gomes , Laurent Najman , Silvio Jamil F. Guimarães , Alexandre Xavier Falcão

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

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

In this paper we present a novel loss function, called class-agnostic segmentation (CAS) loss. With CAS loss the class descriptors are learned during training of the network. We don't require to define the label of a class a-priori, rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Angira Sharma , Naeemullah Khan , Ganesh Sundaramoorthi , Philip Torr

The real human attention is an interactive activity between our visual system and our brain, using both low-level visual stimulus and high-level semantic information. Previous image salient object detection (SOD) works conduct their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

Recent progress on salient object detection (SOD) mainly benefits from multi-scale learning, where the high-level and low-level features collaborate in locating salient objects and discovering fine details, respectively. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yu-Huan Wu , Yun Liu , Le Zhang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Ren

Salient object detection (SOD) is a crucial and preliminary task for many computer vision applications, which have made progress with deep CNNs. Most of the existing methods mainly rely on the RGB information to distinguish the salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Jiawei Zhao , Yifan Zhao , Jia Li , Xiaowu Chen

Weakly-supervised salient object detection (WSOD) aims to develop saliency models using image-level annotations. Despite of the success of previous works, explorations on an effective training strategy for the saliency network and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yongri Piao , Jian Wang , Miao Zhang , Zhengxuan Ma , Huchuan Lu

In this paper we present a novel loss function, called class-agnostic segmentation (CAS) loss. With CAS loss the class descriptors are learned during training of the network. We don't require to define the label of a class a-priori, rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Angira Sharma , Naeemullah Khan , Muhammad Mubashar , Ganesh Sundaramoorthi , Philip Torr

Saliency detection has been widely studied because it plays an important role in various vision applications, but it is difficult to evaluate saliency systems because each measure has its own bias. In this paper, we first revisit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Sen Jia , Neil D. B. Bruce

Benefit from the quick development of deep learning techniques, salient object detection has achieved remarkable progresses recently. However, there still exists following two major challenges that hinder its application in embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Shuhan Chen , Xiuli Tan , Ben Wang , Xuelong Hu

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

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

In this paper, we address the detection of co-occurring salient objects (CoSOD) in an image group using frequency statistics in an unsupervised manner, which further enable us to develop a semi-supervised method. While previous works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Souradeep Chakraborty , Shujon Naha , Muhammet Bastan , Amit Kumar K C , Dimitris Samaras

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

Sparse labels have been attracting much attention in recent years. However, the performance gap between weakly supervised and fully supervised salient object detection methods is huge, and most previous weakly supervised works adopt complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Siyue Yu , Bingfeng Zhang , Jimin Xiao , Eng Gee Lim

Salient object detection (SOD) is viewed as a pixel-wise saliency modeling task by traditional deep learning-based methods. A limitation of current SOD models is insufficient utilization of inter-pixel information, which usually results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Ziyun Yang , Somayyeh Soltanian-Zadeh , Sina Farsiu

Object detection is an important task in remote sensing image analysis. To reduce the computational complexity of redundant information and improve the efficiency of image processing, visual saliency models have been widely applied in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Zhou Huang , Huai-Xin Chen , Tao Zhou , Yun-Zhi Yang , Chang-Yin Wang , Bi-Yuan Liu

Optical Remote Sensing Image Salient Object Detection (ORSI-SOD) remains challenging due to complex backgrounds, low contrast, irregular object shapes, and large variations in object scale. Existing discriminative methods directly regress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Haojing Chen , Zhihang Liu , Yutong Li , Tao Tan , Haoyu Bian , Qiuju Ma