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We extensively compare, qualitatively and quantitatively, 40 state-of-the-art models (28 salient object detection, 10 fixation prediction, 1 objectness, and 1 baseline) over 6 challenging datasets for the purpose of benchmarking salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ali Borji , Ming-Ming Cheng , Huaizu Jiang , Jia Li

Salient object detection aims at detecting the most visually distinct objects and producing the corresponding masks. As the cost of pixel-level annotations is high, image tags are usually used as weak supervisions. However, an image tag can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Xiaoyang Zheng , Xin Tan , Jie Zhou , Lizhuang Ma , Rynson W. H. Lau

In this paper we provide an extensive evaluation of fixation prediction and salient object segmentation algorithms as well as statistics of major datasets. Our analysis identifies serious design flaws of existing salient object benchmarks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Yin Li , Xiaodi Hou , Christof Koch , James M. Rehg , Alan L. Yuille

Salient object detection (SOD) remains an important task in computer vision, with applications ranging from image segmentation to autonomous driving. Fully convolutional network (FCN)-based methods have made remarkable progress in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Kassaw Abraham Mulat , Zhengyong Feng , Tegegne Solomon Eshetie , Ahmed Endris Hasen

Deep neural network (DNN) based salient object detection in images based on high-quality labels is expensive. Alternative unsupervised approaches rely on careful selection of multiple handcrafted saliency methods to generate noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Duc Tam Nguyen , Maximilian Dax , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Thi Phuong Nhung Ngo , Thi Hoai Phuong Nguyen , Zhongyu Lou , Thomas Brox

Salient object detection (SOD) in RGB-D images is an essential task in computer vision, enabling applications in scene understanding, robotics, and augmented reality. However, existing methods struggle to capture global dependency across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Gargi Panda , Soumitra Kundu , Saumik Bhattacharya , Aurobinda Routray

Inspired by the biological visual system that selectively allocates attention to efficiently identify salient objects or regions, underwater salient instance segmentation (USIS) aims to jointly address the problems of where to look…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Lin Hong , Xin Wang , Yihao Li , Xia Wang

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

Salient object detection (SOD) for optical remote sensing images (RSIs) aims at locating and extracting visually distinctive objects/regions from the optical RSIs. Despite some saliency models were proposed to solve the intrinsic problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Runmin Cong , Yumo Zhang , Leyuan Fang , Jun Li , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

The deficiency of segmentation labels is one of the main obstacles to semantic segmentation in the wild. To alleviate this issue, we present a novel framework that generates segmentation labels of images given their image-level class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Jiwoon Ahn , Suha Kwak

In this paper, we propose a fast deep learning method for object saliency detection using convolutional neural networks. In our approach, we use a gradient descent method to iteratively modify the input images based on the pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Hengyue Pan , Hui Jiang

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

RGB-D salient object detection aims to identify the most visually distinctive objects in a pair of color and depth images. Based upon an observation that most of the salient objects may stand out at least in one modality, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Ningning Wang , Xiaojin Gong

Semantic instance segmentation remains a challenging task. In this work we propose to tackle the problem with a discriminative loss function, operating at the pixel level, that encourages a convolutional network to produce a representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Bert De Brabandere , Davy Neven , Luc Van Gool

Visual saliency is a fundamental problem in both cognitive and computational sciences, including computer vision. In this CVPR 2015 paper, we discover that a high-quality visual saliency model can be trained with multiscale features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

While convolutional neural networks have gained impressive success recently in solving structured prediction problems such as semantic segmentation, it remains a challenge to differentiate individual object instances in the scene. Instance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Mengye Ren , Richard S. Zemel

Saliency prediction is a well studied problem in computer vision. Early saliency models were based on low-level hand-crafted feature derived from insights gained in neuroscience and psychophysics. In the wake of deep learning breakthrough,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Sen He , Nicolas Pugeault

Semantic segmentation and object detection research have recently achieved rapid progress. However, the former task has no notion of different instances of the same object, and the latter operates at a coarse, bounding-box level. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Anurag Arnab , Philip H. S Torr

Salient object detection (SOD) and camouflaged object detection (COD) are two closely related but distinct computer vision tasks. Although both are class-agnostic segmentation tasks that map from RGB space to binary space, the former aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Chao Hao , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Yuhao Wang , Weicheng Xie , Jingang Shi , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Point cloud salient object detection has attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. Since existing works do not fully utilize the geometry context of 3D objects, blurry boundaries are generated when segmenting objects with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Chen Wang , Liyuan Zhang , Le Hui , Qi Liu , Yuchao Dai