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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 plays an important role in many downstream tasks. However, complex real-world scenes with varying scales and numbers of salient objects still pose a challenge. In this paper, we directly address the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Bowen Deng , Andrew P. French , Michael P. Pound

Recent efforts in deploying Deep Neural Networks for object detection in real world applications, such as autonomous driving, assume that all relevant object classes have been observed during training. Quantifying the performance of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yimeng Li , Jana Kosecka

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

The learning of the region proposal in object detection using the deep neural networks (DNN) is divided into two tasks: binary classification and bounding box regression task. However, traditional RPN (Region Proposal Network) defines these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Geonseok Seo , Jaeyoung Yoo , Jaeseok Choi , Nojun Kwak

RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) has been in the spotlight recently because it is an important preprocessing operation for various vision tasks. However, despite advances in deep learning-based methods, RGB-D SOD is still challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Minhyeok Lee , Chaewon Park , Suhwan Cho , Sangyoun Lee

Incorporating relational reasoning into neural networks has greatly expanded their capabilities and scope. One defining trait of relational reasoning is that it operates on a set of entities, as opposed to standard vector representations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Qian Huang , Horace He , Abhay Singh , Yan Zhang , Ser-Nam Lim , Austin Benson

Boundary detection of irregular and translucent objects is an important problem with applications in medical imaging, environmental monitoring and manufacturing, where many of these applications are plagued with scarce labeled data and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Fei Yu Guan , Ian Keefe , Sophie Wilkinson , Daniel D. B. Perrakis , Steven Waslander

Deep learning based salient object detection has recently achieved great success with its performance greatly outperforms any other unsupervised methods. However, annotating per-pixel saliency masks is a tedious and inefficient procedure.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Guanbin Li , Yuan Xie , Liang Lin

Salient object detection (SOD) has been in the spotlight recently, yet has been studied less for high-resolution (HR) images. Unfortunately, HR images and their pixel-level annotations are certainly more labor-intensive and time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Taehun Kim , Kunhee Kim , Joonyeong Lee , Dongmin Cha , Jiho Lee , Daijin Kim

Low-light vision remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision due to severe illumination degradation, which significantly affects the performance of downstream tasks such as detection and segmentation. While recent state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Fangtong Sun , Congyu Li , Ke Yang , Yuchen Pan , Hanwen Yu , Xichuan Zhang , Yiying Li

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

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to identify objects in images that are well hidden in the environment due to their high similarity to the background in terms of texture and color. However, existing most boundary-guided camouflage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Junmin Cai , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu

Convolutional-deconvolution networks can be adopted to perform end-to-end saliency detection. But, they do not work well with objects of multiple scales. To overcome such a limitation, in this work, we propose a recurrent attentional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Jason Kuen , Zhenhua Wang , Gang Wang

Although multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel in high-level vision-language reasoning, they lack inherent awareness of visual saliency, making it difficult to identify key visual elements. To bridge this gap, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Long Li , Shuichen Ji , Ziyang Luo , Zhihui Li , Dingwen Zhang , Junwei Han , Nian Liu

Semantic segmentation aims to classify every pixel of an input image. Considering the difficulty of acquiring dense labels, researchers have recently been resorting to weak labels to alleviate the annotation burden of segmentation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Yazhou Yao , Tao Chen , Guosen Xie , Chuanyi Zhang , Fumin Shen , Qi Wu , Zhenmin Tang , Jian Zhang

Feature pyramid network (FPN) based models, which fuse the semantics and salient details in a progressive manner, have been proven highly effective in salient object detection. However, it is observed that these models often generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Zun Li , Congyan Lang , Junhao Liew , Qibin Hou , Yidong Li , Jiashi Feng

To avoid the exhaustive search over locations and scales, current state-of-the-art object detection systems usually involve a crucial component generating a batch of candidate object proposals from images. In this paper, we present a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin , Xian Wu , Nong Xiao , Xiaonan Luo

Recent approaches based on metric learning have achieved great progress in few-shot learning. However, most of them are limited to image-level representation manners, which fail to properly deal with the intra-class variations and spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Chao Dong , Qi Ye , Wenchao Meng , Kaixiang Yang

Lesion segmentation is the first step in most automatic melanoma recognition systems. Deficiencies and difficulties in dermoscopic images such as color inconstancy, hair occlusion, dark corners and color charts make lesion segmentation an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Mostafa Jahanifar , Neda Zamani Tajeddin , Babak Mohammadzadeh Asl , Ali Gooya