English
Related papers

Related papers: Is Depth Really Necessary for Salient Object Detec…

200 papers

Existing \textbf{s}alient \textbf{o}bject \textbf{d}etection (SOD) methods adopt a \textbf{passive} visual stimulus-based rationale--objects with the strongest visual stimuli are perceived as the user's primary focus (i.e., salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Chenglizhao Chen , Shujian Zhang , Luming Li , Wenfeng Song , Shuai Li

Fully-supervised salient object detection (SOD) methods have made great progress, but such methods often rely on a large number of pixel-level annotations, which are time-consuming and labour-intensive. In this paper, we focus on a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Runmin Cong , Qi Qin , Chen Zhang , Qiuping Jiang , Shiqi Wang , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

We present an advanced study on more challenging high-resolution salient object detection (HRSOD) from both dataset and network framework perspectives. To compensate for the lack of HRSOD dataset, we thoughtfully collect a large-scale high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Changqun Xia , Chenxi Xie , Zhentao He , Tianshu Yu , Jia Li

Small object detection (SOD) in optical images and videos is a challenging problem that even state-of-the-art generic object detection methods fail to accurately localize and identify such objects. Typically, small objects appear in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Aref Miri Rekavandi , Lian Xu , Farid Boussaid , Abd-Krim Seghouane , Stephen Hoefs , Mohammed Bennamoun

Most existing salient object detection (SOD) models are difficult to apply due to the complex and huge model structures. Although some lightweight models are proposed, the accuracy is barely satisfactory. In this paper, we design a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jin Zhang , Qiuwei Liang , Yanjiao Shi

Focusing on the issue of how to effectively capture and utilize cross-modality information in RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) task, we present a convolutional neural network (CNN) model, named CIR-Net, based on the novel cross-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Runmin Cong , Qinwei Lin , Chen Zhang , Chongyi Li , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang , Yao Zhao

Existing RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) models usually treat RGB and depth as independent information and design separate networks for feature extraction from each. Such schemes can easily be constrained by a limited amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Keren Fu , Deng-Ping Fan , Ge-Peng Ji , Qijun Zhao , Jianbing Shen , Ce Zhu

Salient object detection is the pixel-level dense prediction task which can highlight the prominent object in the scene. Recently U-Net framework is widely used, and continuous convolution and pooling operations generate multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Zhengyi Liu , Yuan Wang , Zhengzheng Tu , Yun Xiao , Bin Tang

The goal of this work is to present a systematic solution for RGB-D salient object detection, which addresses the following three aspects with a unified framework: modal-specific representation learning, complementary cue selection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Hao Chen , Youfu Li

Visual saliency detection model simulates the human visual system to perceive the scene, and has been widely used in many vision tasks. With the acquisition technology development, more comprehensive information, such as depth cue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Runmin Cong , Jianjun Lei , Huazhu Fu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Weisi Lin , Qingming Huang

Existing RGB-thermal salient object detection (RGB-T SOD) methods aim to identify visually significant objects by leveraging both RGB and thermal modalities to enable robust performance in complex scenarios, but they often suffer from…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Xingyuan Li , Ruichao Hou , Tongwei Ren , Gangshan Wu

The diverse spatial resolutions, various object types, scales and orientations, and cluttered backgrounds in optical remote sensing images (RSIs) challenge the current salient object detection (SOD) approaches. It is commonly unsatisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Chongyi Li , Runmin Cong , Chunle Guo , Hua Li , Chunjie Zhang , Feng Zheng , Yao Zhao

Although current salient object detection (SOD) works have achieved significant progress, they are limited when it comes to the integrity of the predicted salient regions. We define the concept of integrity at both a micro and macro level.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Mingchen Zhuge , Deng-Ping Fan , Nian Liu , Dingwen Zhang , Dong Xu , Ling Shao

Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment the most conspicuous objects in an image or video. As an important pre-processing step, it has many potential applications in multimedia and vision tasks. With the advance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xinhao Deng , Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu

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 has seen remarkable progress driven by deep learning techniques. However, most of deep learning based salient object detection methods are black-box in nature and lacking in interpretability. This paper proposes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Huaxin Xiao , Jiashi Feng , Yunchao Wei , Maojun Zhang

Benefit from the quick development of deep learning techniques, salient object detection has achieved remarkable progresses recently. However, there still exists following two major challenges that hinder its application in embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Shuhan Chen , Xiuli Tan , Ben Wang , Xuelong Hu

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

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

Small object detection (SOD) is a critical yet challenging task in computer vision, with applications like spanning surveillance, autonomous systems, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Unlike larger objects, small objects contain limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mahya Nikouei , Bita Baroutian , Shahabedin Nabavi , Fateme Taraghi , Atefe Aghaei , Ayoob Sajedi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam