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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

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

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

We present a novel group collaborative learning framework (GCoNet) capable of detecting co-salient objects in real time (16ms), by simultaneously mining consensus representations at group level based on the two necessary criteria: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Qi Fan , Deng-Ping Fan , Huazhu Fu , Chi Keung Tang , Ling Shao , Yu-Wing Tai

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

Co-salient object detection targets at detecting co-existed salient objects among a group of images. Recently, a generalist model for segmenting everything in context, called SegGPT, is gaining public attention. In view of its breakthrough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yi Liu , Shoukun Xu , Dingwen Zhang , Jungong Han

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

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

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

We present the first systematic study on concealed object detection (COD), which aims to identify objects that are "perfectly" embedded in their background. The high intrinsic similarities between the concealed objects and their background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Deng-Ping Fan , Ge-Peng Ji , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ling Shao

We introduce pluralistic salient object detection (PSOD), a novel task aimed at generating multiple plausible salient segmentation results for a given input image. Unlike conventional SOD methods that produce a single segmentation mask for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xuelu Feng , Yunsheng Li , Dongdong Chen , Chunming Qiao , Junsong Yuan , Lu Yuan , Gang Hua

Existing co-salient object detection (CoSOD) methods generally employ a three-stage architecture (i.e., encoding, consensus extraction & dispersion, and prediction) along with a typical full fine-tuning paradigm. Although they yield certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jie Wang , Nana Yu , Zihao Zhang , Yahong Han

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

Salient Object Detection (SOD) is crucial in computer vision, yet RGB-based methods face limitations in challenging scenes, such as small objects and similar color features. Hyperspectral images provide a promising solution for more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yuhao Qiu , Shuyan Bai , Tingfa Xu , Peifu Liu , Haolin Qin , Jianan Li

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) is a popular and important topic aimed at precise detection and segmentation of the interesting regions in the images. We integrate the linguistic information into the vision-based U-Structure networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Yunqing Bao , Hang Dai , Abdulmotaleb Elsaddik

This paper presents a co-salient object detection method to find common salient regions in a set of images. We utilize deep saliency networks to transfer co-saliency prior knowledge and better capture high-level semantic information, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Dong-ju Jeong , Insung Hwang , Nam Ik Cho

Recent salient object detection (SOD) methods aim to improve performance in four key directions: semantic enhancement, boundary refinement, auxiliary task supervision, and multi-modal fusion. In pursuit of continuous gains, these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yu Zhang , Haoan Ping , Yuchen Li , Zhenshan Bing , Fuchun Sun , Alois Knoll

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

We present a simple yet effective progressive self-guided loss function to facilitate deep learning-based salient object detection (SOD) in images. The saliency maps produced by the most relevant works still suffer from incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sheng Yang , Weisi Lin , Guosheng Lin , Qiuping Jiang , Zichuan Liu