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Generating background scenes for salient objects plays a crucial role across various domains including creative design and e-commerce, as it enhances the presentation and context of subjects by integrating them into tailored environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , Joao V. B. Soares , Kapil Thadani , Shaunak Mishra , Mikhail Kuznetsov , Yueh-Ning Ku , Paloma de Juan

Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment the most prominent objects in images. Advanced SOD methods often utilize various Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) or Transformers for deep feature extraction. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Shixuan Gao , Pingping Zhang , Tianyu Yan , Huchuan Lu

Salient object detection (SOD) aims at finding the most salient objects in images and outputs pixel-level binary masks. Transformer-based methods achieve promising performance due to their global semantic understanding, crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Wen Liang , Peipei Ran , Mengchao Bai , Xiao Liu , P. Bilha Githinji , Wei Zhao , Peiwu Qin

The majority of current salient object detection (SOD) models are focused on designing a series of decoders based on fully convolutional networks (FCNs) or Transformer architectures and integrating them in a skillful manner. These models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Ailing Pan , Chao Dai , Chen Pan , Dongping Zhang , Yunchao Xu

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

Incremental learning requires a model to continually learn new tasks from streaming data. However, traditional fine-tuning of a well-trained deep neural network on a new task will dramatically degrade performance on the old task -- a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Can Peng , Kun Zhao , Sam Maksoud , Meng Li , Brian C. Lovell

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

Visual attention brings significant progress for Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) in various applications. In this paper, object-based attention in human visual cortex inspires us to introduce a mechanism for modification of activations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Saeed Masoudnia , Melika Kheirieh , Abdol-Hossein Vahabie , Babak Nadjar Araabi

Existing studies on salient object detection (SOD) focus on extracting distinct objects with edge information and aggregating multi-level features to improve SOD performance. To achieve satisfactory performance, the methods employ refined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Min Seok Lee , Wooseok Shin , Sung Won Han

We introduce pluralistic salient object detection (PSOD), a novel task aimed at generating multiple plausible salient segmentation results for a given input image. Unlike conventional SOD methods that produce a single segmentation mask for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xuelu Feng , Yunsheng Li , Dongdong Chen , Chunming Qiao , Junsong Yuan , Lu Yuan , Gang Hua

RGB-T salient object detection (SOD) aims to segment attractive objects by combining RGB and thermal infrared images. To enhance performance, the Segment Anything Model has been fine-tuned for this task. However, the imbalance convergence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zhengyi Liu , Xinrui Wang , Xianyong Fang , Zhengzheng Tu , Linbo Wang

Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment prominent regions within a scene. Traditional models rely on manually annotated pseudo labels with precise pixel-level accuracy, which is time-consuming. We developed a low-cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Miaoyang He , Shuyong Gao , Tsui Qin Mok , Weifeng Ge , Wengqiang Zhang

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

This paper presents a new deep neural network design for salient object detection by maximizing the integration of local and global image context within, around, and beyond the salient objects. Our key idea is to adaptively propagate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Xiaowei Hu , Chi-Wing Fu , Lei Zhu , Tianyu Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Saliency Object Detection (SOD) has several applications in image analysis. The methods have evolved from image-intrinsic to object-inspired (deep-learning-based) models. When a model fail, however, there is no alternative to enhance its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Leonardo de Melo Joao , Alexandre Xavier Falcao

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

Our paper introduces a novel two-stage self-supervised approach for detecting co-occurring salient objects (CoSOD) in image groups without requiring segmentation annotations. Unlike existing unsupervised methods that rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Souradeep Chakraborty , Dimitris Samaras

Salient object detection has increasingly become a popular topic in cognitive and computational sciences, including computer vision and artificial intelligence research. In this paper, we propose integrating \textit{semantic priors} into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Tam V. Nguyen , Luoqi Liu

Fixation prediction (FP) in panoramic contents has been widely investigated along with the booming trend of virtual reality (VR) applications. However, another issue within the field of visual saliency, salient object detection (SOD), has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Yi Zhang , Lu Zhang , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

This paper presents a co-salient object detection method to find common salient regions in a set of images. We utilize deep saliency networks to transfer co-saliency prior knowledge and better capture high-level semantic information, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Dong-ju Jeong , Insung Hwang , Nam Ik Cho