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In recent years, deep network-based methods have continuously refreshed state-of-the-art performance on Salient Object Detection (SOD) task. However, the performance discrepancy caused by different implementation details may conceal the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Huajun Zhou , Yang Lin , Lingxiao Yang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie

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

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 (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

Compared with the conventional hand-crafted approaches, the deep learning based methods have achieved tremendous performance improvements by training exquisitely crafted fancy networks over large-scale training sets. However, do we really…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

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

Salient object detection (SOD) is a fundamental computer vision task. Recently, with the revival of deep neural networks, SOD has made great progresses. However, there still exist two thorny issues that cannot be well addressed by existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Lv Tang , Bo Li

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

Existing salient object detection methods often adopt deeper and wider networks for better performance, resulting in heavy computational burden and slow inference speed. This inspires us to rethink saliency detection to achieve a favorable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jia Li , Shengye Qiao , Zhirui Zhao , Chenxi Xie , Xiaowu Chen , Changqun Xia

We provide a comprehensive evaluation of salient object detection (SOD) models. Our analysis identifies a serious design bias of existing SOD datasets which assumes that each image contains at least one clearly outstanding salient object in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Shang-Hua Gao , Qibin Hou , Ali Borji

Salient object detection has seen remarkable progress driven by deep learning techniques. However, most of deep learning based salient object detection methods are black-box in nature and lacking in interpretability. This paper proposes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Huaxin Xiao , Jiashi Feng , Yunchao Wei , Maojun Zhang

Salient object detection is subjective in nature, which implies that multiple estimations should be related to the same input image. Most existing salient object detection models are deterministic following a point to point estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xinyu Tian , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai

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

Contour information plays a vital role in salient object detection. However, excessive false positives remain in predictions from existing contour-based models due to insufficient contour-saliency fusion. In this work, we designed a network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yi Ke Yun , Takahiro Tsubono

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

There has been profound progress in visual saliency thanks to the deep learning architectures, however, there still exist three major challenges that hinder the detection performance for scenes with complex compositions, multiple salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Fatih Porikli , Mingyi He

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

This paper investigates a fundamental yet underexplored issue in Salient Object Detection (SOD): the size-invariant property for evaluation protocols, particularly in scenarios when multiple salient objects of significantly different sizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Shilong Bao , Qianqian Xu , Feiran Li , Boyu Han , Zhiyong Yang , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Though deep learning techniques have made great progress in salient object detection recently, the predicted saliency maps still suffer from incomplete predictions due to the internal complexity of objects and inaccurate boundaries caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Runmin Wu , Mengyang Feng , Wenlong Guan , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Errui Ding

Salient object detection is inherently a subjective problem, as observers with different priors may perceive different objects as salient. However, existing methods predominantly formulate it as an objective prediction task with a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Fuxi Zhang , Yifan Wang , Hengrun Zhao , Zhuohan Sun , Changxing Xia , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu , Yangrui Shao , Chen Yang , Long Teng