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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…

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Salient object detection requires a comprehensive and scalable receptive field to locate the visually significant objects in the image. Recently, the emergence of visual transformers and multi-branch modules has significantly enhanced the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Mingcan Ma , Changqun Xia , Chenxi Xie , Xiaowu Chen , Jia Li

Recent progress on saliency detection is substantial, benefiting mostly from the explosive development of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Semantic segmentation and saliency detection algorithms developed lately have been mostly based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiao-Wei Hu , Ali Borji , Zhuowen Tu , Philip Torr

Current state-of-the-art saliency detection models rely heavily on large datasets of accurate pixel-wise annotations, but manually labeling pixels is time-consuming and labor-intensive. There are some weakly supervised methods developed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Shuyong Gao , Wei Zhang , Yan Wang , Qianyu Guo , Chenglong Zhang , Yangji He , Wenqiang Zhang

Leveraging rich information is crucial for dense prediction tasks. Light field (LF) cameras are instrumental in this regard, as they allow data to be sampled from various perspectives. This capability provides valuable spatial, depth, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Fei Teng , Jiaming Zhang , Jiawei Liu , Kunyu Peng , Xina Cheng , Zhiyong Li , Kailun Yang

RGB-Thermal salient object detection (SOD) combines two spectra to segment visually conspicuous regions in images. Most existing methods use boundary maps to learn the sharp boundary. These methods ignore the interactions between isolated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Heng Zhou , Chunna Tian , Zhenxi Zhang , Chengyang Li , Yuxuan Ding , Yongqiang Xie , Zhongbo Li

Segmentation of retinal vessel images is critical to the diagnosis of retinopathy. Recently, convolutional neural networks have shown significant ability to extract the blood vessel structure. However, it remains challenging to refined…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Geng-Xin Xu , Chuan-Xian Ren

Feature matters for salient object detection. Existing methods mainly focus on designing a sophisticated structure to incorporate multi-level features and filter out cluttered features. We present Progressive Feature Polishing Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Bo Wang , Quan Chen , Min Zhou , Zhiqiang Zhang , Xiaogang Jin , Kun Gai

Referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD) aims to identify hidden objects by incorporating reference information such as images and text descriptions. Previous research has transformed reference images with salient objects into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yu Wen , Shuyong Gao , Shuping Zhang , Miao Huang , Lili Tao , Han Yang , Haozhe Xing , Lihe Zhang , Boxue Hou

Benefiting from color independence, illumination invariance and location discrimination attributed by the depth map, it can provide important supplemental information for extracting salient objects in complex environments. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Xiaoqi Zhao , Youwei Pang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

One major branch of saliency object detection methods is diffusion-based which construct a graph model on a given image and diffuse seed saliency values to the whole graph by a diffusion matrix. While their performance is sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Peng Jiang , Zhiyi Pan , Nuno Vasconcelos , Baoquan Chen , Jingliang Peng

In the computer vision community, great progresses have been achieved in salient object detection from natural scene images (NSI-SOD); by contrast, salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (RSI-SOD) remains to be a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Gongyang Li , Zhi Liu , Weisi Lin , Haibin Ling

Salient object detection (SOD) is a crucial and preliminary task for many computer vision applications, which have made progress with deep CNNs. Most of the existing methods mainly rely on the RGB information to distinguish the salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Jiawei Zhao , Yifan Zhao , Jia Li , Xiaowu Chen

Although deep CNNs have brought significant improvement to image saliency detection, most CNN based models are sensitive to distortion such as compression and noise. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end generic salient object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Delu Zeng , Yixuan He , Li Liu , Zhihong Chen , Jiabin Huang , Jie Chen , John Paisley

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

The camouflaged object detection (COD) task aims to identify and segment objects that blend into the background due to their similar color or texture. Despite the inherent difficulties of the task, COD has gained considerable attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Chaewon Park , Dogyoon Lee , Jungho Lee , Sangyoun Lee

Underwater fish detection (UFD) remains a challenging task in computer vision due to low object resolution, significant background interference, and high visual similarity between targets and surroundings. Existing approaches primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jinsong Yang , Zeyuan Hu , Yichen Li

Salient object detection has been long studied to identify the most visually attractive objects in images/videos. Recently, a growing amount of approaches have been proposed all of which rely on the contour/edge information to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yue Song , Hao Tang , Nicu Sebe , Wei Wang

Visual scene decomposition into semantic entities is one of the major challenges when creating a reliable object grasping system. Recently, we introduced a bottom-up hierarchical clustering approach which is able to segment objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Dominik Alexander Klein , Boris Illing , Bastian Gaspers , Dirk Schulz , Armin Bernd Cremers

Despite recent improvements in computer vision, artificial visual systems' design is still daunting since an explanation of visual computing algorithms remains elusive. Salient object detection is one problem that is still open due to the…

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