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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

With the rise of deep convolutional neural networks, object detection has achieved prominent advances in past years. However, such prosperity could not camouflage the unsatisfactory situation of Small Object Detection (SOD), one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Gong Cheng , Xiang Yuan , Xiwen Yao , Kebing Yan , Qinghua Zeng , Xingxing Xie , Junwei Han

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

Salient object detection (SOD) has achieved substantial progress in recent years. In practical scenarios, compressed images (CI) serve as the primary medium for data transmission and storage. However, scant attention has been directed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Guibiao Liao , Wei Gao

Salient Object Detection (SOD) domain using RGB-D data has lately emerged with some current models' adequately precise results. However, they have restrained generalization abilities and intensive computational complexity. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Tanveer Hussain , Saeed Anwar , Amin Ullah , Khan Muhammad , Sung Wook Baik

While the human visual system employs distinct mechanisms to perceive salient and camouflaged objects, existing models struggle to disentangle these tasks. Specifically, salient object detection (SOD) models frequently misclassify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhangjun Zhou , Yiping Li , Chunlin Zhong , Jianuo Huang , Jialun Pei , Hua Li , He Tang

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

Recent deep learning-based video salient object detection (VSOD) has achieved some breakthrough, but these methods rely on expensive annotated videos with pixel-wise annotations, weak annotations, or part of the pixel-wise annotations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Binwei Xu , Haoran Liang , Wentian Ni , Weihua Gong , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

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) in complex environments remains a challenging research topic. Most existing methods perform well in natural scenes with negligible noise, and tend to leverage multi-modal information (e.g., depth and infrared)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Quan Chen , Xiong Yang , Bolun Zheng , Rongfeng Lu , Xiaokai Yang , Qianyu Zhang , Yu Liu , Xiaofei Zhou

Image-based salient object detection (SOD) has been extensively explored in the past decades. However, SOD on 360$^\circ$ omnidirectional images is less studied owing to the lack of datasets with pixel-level annotations. Toward this end,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jia Li , Jinming Su , Changqun Xia , Yonghong Tian

We present the RSSOD-Bench dataset for salient object detection (SOD) in optical remote sensing imagery. While SOD has achieved success in natural scene images with deep learning, research in SOD for remote sensing imagery (RSSOD) is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zhitong Xiong , Yanfeng Liu , Qi Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Image salient object detection (SOD) is an active research topic in computer vision and multimedia area. Fusing complementary information of RGB and depth has been demonstrated to be effective for image salient object detection which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Bo Jiang , Zitai Zhou , Xiao Wang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

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 (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

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

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

Image-based salient object detection (SOD) has been extensively studied in the past decades. However, video-based SOD is much less explored since there lack large-scale video datasets within which salient objects are unambiguously defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Jia Li , Changqun Xia , Xiaowu Chen

Existing deep neural network based salient object detection (SOD) methods mainly focus on pursuing high network accuracy. However, those methods overlook the gap between network accuracy and prediction confidence, known as the confidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Xin Yu , Mehrtash Harandi , Nick Barnes , Richard Hartley

Fully convolutional networks have shown outstanding performance in the salient object detection (SOD) field. The state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods have a tendency to become deeper and more complex, which easily homogenize their learned deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin