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Co-salient object detection targets at detecting co-existed salient objects among a group of images. Recently, a generalist model for segmenting everything in context, called SegGPT, is gaining public attention. In view of its breakthrough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yi Liu , Shoukun Xu , Dingwen Zhang , Jungong Han

Salient object segmentation aims at distinguishing various salient objects from backgrounds. Despite the lack of semantic consistency, salient objects often have obvious texture and location characteristics in local area. Based on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Jing Tan , Pengfei Xiong , Yuwen He , Kuntao Xiao , Zhengyi Lv

Image saliency detection has recently witnessed rapid progress due to deep convolutional neural networks. However, none of the existing methods is able to identify object instances in the detected salient regions. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Guanbin Li , Yuan Xie , Liang Lin , Yizhou Yu

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

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) plays a crucial role in many computer vision applications, requiring accurate localization and precise boundary delineation of salient regions. In this work, we present a novel framework that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abhinav Sagar

Severe background clutter is challenging in many computer vision tasks, including large-scale image retrieval. Global descriptors, that are popular due to their memory and search efficiency, are especially prone to corruption by such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Oriane Siméoni , Ahmet Iscen , Giorgos Tolias , Yannis Avrithis , Ondrej Chum

Visual saliency is a fundamental problem in both cognitive and computational sciences, including computer vision. In this paper, we discover that a high-quality visual saliency model can be learned from multiscale features extracted using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

Aiming at discovering and locating most distinctive objects from visual scenes, salient object detection (SOD) plays an essential role in various computer vision systems. Coming to the era of high resolution, SOD methods are facing new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Lv Tang , Bo Li , Shouhong Ding , Mofei Song

In saliency detection, every pixel needs contextual information to make saliency prediction. Previous models usually incorporate contexts holistically. However, for each pixel, usually only part of its context region is useful and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Nian Liu , Junwei Han , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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

Salient instance segmentation is a new challenging task that received widespread attention in the saliency detection area. The new generation of saliency detection provides a strong theoretical and technical basis for video surveillance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Jialun Pei , He Tang , Tianyang Cheng , Chuanbo Chen

Video salient object detection aims to find the most visually distinctive objects in a video. To explore the temporal dependencies, existing methods usually resort to recurrent neural networks or optical flow. However, these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Yi-Wen Chen , Xiaojie Jin , Xiaohui Shen , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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

How do computers and intelligent agents view the world around them? Feature extraction and representation constitutes one the basic building blocks towards answering this question. Traditionally, this has been done with carefully engineered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jaime Spencer , Richard Bowden , Simon Hadfield

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

Automatic Salient object detection has received tremendous attention from research community and has been an increasingly important tool in many computer vision tasks. This paper proposes a novel bottom-up salient object detection framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Kan Huang , Chunbiao Zhu , Ge Li

Low light images captured in a non-uniform illumination environment usually are degraded with the scene depth and the corresponding environment lights. This degradation results in severe object information loss in the degraded image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Xin Xu , Shiqin Wang , Zheng Wang , Xiaolong Zhang , Ruimin Hu

Fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) have shown their advantages in the salient object detection task. However, most existing FCNs-based methods still suffer from coarse object boundaries. In this paper, to solve this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Jia-Xing Zhao , Jiangjiang Liu , Den-Ping Fan , Yang Cao , Jufeng Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng

To detect salient objects accurately, existing methods usually design complex backbone network architectures to learn and fuse powerful features. However, the saliency inference module that performs saliency prediction from the fused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Zun Li , Congyan Lang , Yunpeng Chen , Junhao Liew , Jiashi Feng