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The real human attention is an interactive activity between our visual system and our brain, using both low-level visual stimulus and high-level semantic information. Previous image salient object detection (SOD) works conduct their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

While we enjoy the richness and informativeness of multimodal data, it also introduces interference and redundancy of information. To achieve optimal domain interpretation with limited resources, we propose CSDNet, a lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xiaotong Yu , Ruihan Xie , Zhihe Zhao , Chang-Wen Chen

Existing salient object detection methods often adopt deeper and wider networks for better performance, resulting in heavy computational burden and slow inference speed. This inspires us to rethink saliency detection to achieve a favorable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jia Li , Shengye Qiao , Zhirui Zhao , Chenxi Xie , Xiaowu Chen , Changqun Xia

Despite the remarkable advances in visual saliency analysis for natural scene images (NSIs), salient object detection (SOD) for optical remote sensing images (RSIs) still remains an open and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Qijian Zhang , Runmin Cong , Chongyi Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yuming Fang , Xiaochun Cao , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

Existing RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) approaches concentrate on the cross-modal fusion between the RGB stream and the depth stream. They do not deeply explore the effect of the depth map itself. In this work, we design a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Xiaoqi Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Youwei Pang , Huchuan Lu , Lei Zhang

Salient Object Detection (SOD) plays a crucial role in many computer vision applications, requiring accurate localization and precise boundary delineation of salient regions. In this work, we present a novel framework that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abhinav Sagar

Depth images and thermal images contain the spatial geometry information and surface temperature information, which can act as complementary information for the RGB modality. However, the quality of the depth and thermal images is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Liuxin Bao , Xiaofei Zhou , Xiankai Lu , Yaoqi Sun , Haibing Yin , Zhenghui Hu , Jiyong Zhang , Chenggang Yan

Existing state-of-the-art salient object detection networks rely on aggregating multi-level features of pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Compared to high-level features, low-level features contribute less to performance but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Zhe Wu , Li Su , Qingming Huang

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

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) in optical remote sensing images (RSIs), or RSI-SOD, is an emerging topic in understanding optical RSIs. However, due to the difference between optical RSIs and natural scene images (NSIs), directly applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Gongyang Li , Zhi Liu , Dan Zeng , Weisi Lin , Haibin Ling

Salient object detection (SOD) aims to identify the most attractive objects within an image. Depending on the type of data being detected, SOD can be categorized into various forms, including RGB, RGB-D (Depth), RGB-T (Thermal) and light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xingzhao Jia , Zhongqiu Zhao , Changlei Dongye , Zhao Zhang

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

Given the widespread adoption of depth-sensing acquisition devices, RGB-D videos and related data/media have gained considerable traction in various aspects of daily life. Consequently, conducting salient object detection (SOD) in RGB-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Ao Mou , Yukang Lu , Jiahao He , Dingyao Min , Keren Fu , Qijun Zhao

This paper focuses on the inconsistency in salient regions between RGB and thermal images. To address this issue, we propose the Region-guided Selective Optimization Network for RGB-T Salient Object Detection, which consists of the region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Bin Wan , Runmin Cong , Xiaofei Zhou , Hao Fang , Chengtao Lv , Sam Kwong

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

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

In this paper, we propose a novel edge preserving and multi-scale contextual neural network for salient object detection. The proposed framework is aiming to address two limits of the existing CNN based methods. First, region-based CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Xiang Wang , Huimin Ma , Xiaozhi Chen , Shaodi You

Deep neural network based methods have made a significant breakthrough in salient object detection. However, they are typically limited to input images with low resolutions ($400\times400$ pixels or less). Little effort has been made to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Yi Zeng , Pingping Zhang , Jianming Zhang , Zhe Lin , Huchuan Lu

Automatic Salient object detection has received tremendous attention from research community and has been an increasingly important tool in many computer vision tasks. This paper proposes a novel bottom-up salient object detection framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Kan Huang , Chunbiao Zhu , Ge Li