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One of the fundamental properties of a salient object region is its contrast with the immediate context. The problem is that numerous object regions exist which potentially can all be salient. One way to prevent an exhaustive search over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Aymen Azaza , Joost van de Weijer , Ali Douik , Marc Masana

Salient object detection has been long studied to identify the most visually attractive objects in images/videos. Recently, a growing amount of approaches have been proposed all of which rely on the contour/edge information to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yue Song , Hao Tang , Nicu Sebe , Wei Wang

Salient object detection in complex scenes and environments is a challenging research topic. Most works focus on RGB-based salient object detection, which limits its performance of real-life applications when confronted with adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Zhengzheng Tu , Yan Ma , Zhun Li , Chenglong Li , Jieming Xu , Yongtao Liu

Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) are undirected graphical models, a special case of which correspond to conditionally-trained finite state machines. A key advantage of these models is their great flexibility to include a wide array of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Andrew McCallum

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

This paper presents a novel deep learning architecture to classify structured objects in datasets with a large number of visually similar categories. We model sequences of images as linear-chain CRFs, and jointly learn the parameters from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Eran Goldman , Jacob Goldberger

Light field cameras capture multi-view observations within a single exposure. However, existing studies are typically tailored to specific LF representations, leaving the field without a unified learning framework. To bridge this gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Fei Teng , Lingxin Huang , Buyin Deng , Kai Luo , Boyuan Zheng , Zheng Fang , Hong Zheng , Kunyu Peng , Jiaming Zhang , Yaonan Wang , Kailun Yang

Salient objects attract human attention and usually stand out clearly from their surroundings. In contrast, camouflaged objects share similar colors or textures with the environment. In this case, salient objects are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Aixuan Li , Jing Zhang , Yunqiu Lv , Tong Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Mingyi He , Yuchao Dai

Salient object detection is a problem that has been considered in detail and many solutions proposed. In this paper, we argue that work to date has addressed a problem that is relatively ill-posed. Specifically, there is not universal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Md Amirul Islam , Mahmoud Kalash , Neil D. B. Bruce

As prior knowledge of objects or object features helps us make relations for similar objects on attentional tasks, pre-trained deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be used to detect salient objects on images regardless of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Nevrez Imamoglu , Chi Zhang , Wataru Shimoda , Yuming Fang , Boxin Shi

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

Structure learning of Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) can be cast into an L1-regularized optimization problem. To avoid optimizing over a fully linked model, gain-based or gradient-based feature selection methods start from an empty model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Ni Lao , Jun Zhu

Achieving joint learning of Salient Object Detection (SOD) and Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) is extremely challenging due to their distinct object characteristics, i.e., saliency and camouflage. The only preliminary research treats…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yi Liu , Chengxin Li , Xiaohui Dong , Lei Li , Dingwen Zhang , Shoukun Xu , Jungong Han

In this paper, we model the salient object detection problem under a probabilistic framework encoding the boundary connectivity saliency cue and smoothness constraints in an optimization problem. We show that this problem has a closed form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Caglar Aytekin , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Feature matters for salient object detection. Existing methods mainly focus on designing a sophisticated structure to incorporate multi-level features and filter out cluttered features. We present Progressive Feature Polishing Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Bo Wang , Quan Chen , Min Zhou , Zhiqiang Zhang , Xiaogang Jin , Kun Gai

Saliency detection aims to detect the most attractive objects in images and is widely used as a foundation for various applications. In this paper, we propose a novel salient object detection algorithm for RGB-D images using center-dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Chunbiao Zhu , Wenhao Zhang , Thomas H. Li , Ge Li

Image segmentation is considered to be one of the critical tasks in hyperspectral remote sensing image processing. Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN) has established itself as a powerful model in segmentation and classification by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Fahim Irfan Alam , Jun Zhou , Alan Wee-Chung Liew , Xiuping Jia , Jocelyn Chanussot , Yongsheng Gao

The increasing number of cameras and a handful of human operators to monitor the video inputs from hundreds of cameras leave the system ill equipped to fulfil the task of detecting anomalies. Thus, there is a dire need to automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Mei Kuan Lim , Chee Seng Chan , Dorothy Monekosso , Paolo Remagnino

Leveraging multi-modal fusion, especially between camera and LiDAR, has become essential for building accurate and robust 3D object detection systems for autonomous vehicles. Until recently, point decorating approaches, in which point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Philip Jacobson , Yiyang Zhou , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Ming C. Wu

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved competitive performance in salient object detection, in which how to learn effective and comprehensive features plays a critical role. Most of the previous works mainly adopted multiple level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zuyao Chen , Qianqian Xu , Runmin Cong , Qingming Huang