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This paper addresses the challenge of deploying salient object detection (SOD) on resource-constrained devices with real-time performance. While recent advances in deep neural networks have improved SOD, existing top-leading models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhuo Su , Li Liu , Matthias Müller , Jiehua Zhang , Diana Wofk , Ming-Ming Cheng , Matti Pietikäinen

Video salient object detection models trained on pixel-wise dense annotation have achieved excellent performance, yet obtaining pixel-by-pixel annotated datasets is laborious. Several works attempt to use scribble annotations to mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Shuyong Gao , Haozhe Xing , Wei Zhang , Yan Wang , Qianyu Guo , Wenqiang Zhang

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

The goal of salient region detection is to identify the regions of an image that attract the most attention. Many methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance levels on this task. Recently, salient instance segmentation has become an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Jialun Pei , He Tang , Chao Liu , Chuanbo Chen

Recent advances in supervised salient object detection has resulted in significant performance on benchmark datasets. Training such models, however, requires expensive pixel-wise annotations of salient objects. Moreover, many existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Huaizu Jiang

In the current salient object detection network, the most popular method is using U-shape structure. However, the massive number of parameters leads to more consumption of computing and storage resources which are not feasible to deploy on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Bin Zhang , Yang Wu , Xiaojing Zhang , Ming Ma

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 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

Salient object detection (SOD) in remote sensing images faces significant challenges due to large variations in object sizes, the computational cost of self-attention mechanisms, and the limitations of CNN-based extractors in capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Bin Wan , Runmin Cong , Xiaofei Zhou , Hao Fang , Yaoqi Sun , Sam Kwong

Salient object detection is a problem that has been considered in detail and \textcolor{black}{many solutions have been proposed}. In this paper, we argue that work to date has addressed a problem that is relatively ill-posed. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Mahmoud Kalash , Md Amirul Islam , Neil D. B. Bruce

Salient object detection or salient region detection models, diverging from fixation prediction models, have traditionally been dealing with locating and segmenting the most salient object or region in a scene. While the notion of most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Ali Borji

UNet-based methods have shown outstanding performance in salient object detection (SOD), but are problematic in two aspects. 1) Indiscriminately integrating the encoder feature, which contains spatial information for multiple objects, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Chaewon Park , Minhyeok Lee , MyeongAh Cho , Sangyoun Lee

Co-salient object detection (Co-SOD) aims to identify common salient objects across a group of related images. While recent methods have made notable progress, they typically rely on low-level visual patterns and lack semantic priors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jiayi Zhu , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yihao Huang , Yang Liu , Geguang Pu

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

Image salient object detection (SOD) is an active research topic in computer vision and multimedia area. Fusing complementary information of RGB and depth has been demonstrated to be effective for image salient object detection which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Bo Jiang , Zitai Zhou , Xiao Wang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

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

In many application domains such as computer vision, Convolutional Layers (CLs) are key to the accuracy of deep learning methods. However, it is often required to assemble a large number of CLs, each containing thousands of parameters, in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Carlos Lassance , Vincent Gripon , Matthieu Courbariaux , Yoshua Bengio

Fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) have shown outstanding performance in many computer vision tasks including salient object detection. However, there still remains two issues needed to be addressed in deep learning based saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Chunbiao Zhu , Xing Cai , Kan Huang , Thomas H Li , Ge Li

Salient object detection on RGB-D images is an active topic in computer vision. Although the existing methods have achieved appreciable performance, there are still some challenges. The locality of convolutional neural network requires that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Xian Fang , Jinshao Zhu , Xiuli Shao , Hongpeng Wang

We propose an approach to discover class-specific pixels for the weakly-supervised semantic segmentation task. We show that properly combining saliency and attention maps allows us to obtain reliable cues capable of significantly boosting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Arslan Chaudhry , Puneet K. Dokania , Philip H. S. Torr