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Fully supervised salient object detection (SOD) methods have made considerable progress in performance, yet these models rely heavily on expensive pixel-wise labels. Recently, to achieve a trade-off between labeling burden and performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Binwei Xu , Haoran Liang , Weihua Gong , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

The main purpose of RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) is how to better integrate and utilize cross-modal fusion information. In this paper, we explore these issues from a new perspective. We integrate the features of different modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Youwei Pang , Lihe Zhang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Huchuan Lu

Salient Object Detection (SOD) remains an essential yet underexplored task in the era of large-scale vision models. Although foundation models like SAM exhibit strong generalization, their potential for SOD is not fully realized, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Morteza Moradi , Mohammad Moradi , Simone Palazzo , Ali Borji , Concetto Spampinato

Many works have been done on salient object detection using supervised or unsupervised approaches on colour images. Recently, a few studies demonstrated that efficient salient object detection can also be implemented by using spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Nevrez Imamoglu , Yu Oishi , Xiaoqiang Zhang , Guanqun Ding , Yuming Fang , Toru Kouyama , Ryosuke Nakamura

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based salient object detection methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance and outperform those unsupervised methods with a wide margin. In this paper, we propose to integrate deep and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Jing Zhang , Bo Li , Yuchao Dai , Fatih Porikli , Mingyi He

Salient object detection, which aims to identify and locate the most salient pixels or regions in images, has been attracting more and more interest due to its various real-world applications. However, this vision task is quite challenging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

Salient object detection is a prevalent computer vision task that has applications ranging from abnormality detection to abnormality processing. Context modelling is an important criterion in the domain of saliency detection. A global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Kitty Varghese , Sauradip Nag

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

Salient object detection (SOD), a foundational task in computer vision, has advanced from single-modal to multi-modal paradigms to enhance generalization. However, most existing SOD methods assume low-noise visual conditions, overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Quan Chen , Xiaokai Yang , Tingyu Wang , Rongfeng Lu , Xichun Sheng , Yaoqi Sun , Chenggang Yan

Salient object detection is evaluated using binary ground truth with the labels being salient object class and background. In this paper, we corroborate based on three subjective experiments on a novel image dataset that objects in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Gökhan Yildirim , Debashis Sen , Mohan Kankanhalli , Sabine Süsstrunk

Recent advances in deep learning significantly boost the performance of salient object detection (SOD) at the expense of labeling larger-scale per-pixel annotations. To relieve the burden of labor-intensive labeling, deep unsupervised SOD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Pengxiang Yan , Ziyi Wu , Mengmeng Liu , Kun Zeng , Liang Lin , Guanbin 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

Exploring to what humans pay attention in dynamic panoramic scenes is useful for many fundamental applications, including augmented reality (AR) in retail, AR-powered recruitment, and visual language navigation. With this goal in mind, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Yi Zhang

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

In the past few years, numerous deep learning methods have been proposed to address the task of segmenting salient objects from RGB images. However, these approaches depending on single modality fail to achieve the state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yi Zhang , Lu Zhang , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

This paper explores the size-invariance of evaluation metrics in Salient Object Detection (SOD), especially when multiple targets of diverse sizes co-exist in the same image. We observe that current metrics are size-sensitive, where larger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Feiran Li , Qianqian Xu , Shilong Bao , Zhiyong Yang , Runmin Cong , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

RGB-T salient object detection (SOD) aims to segment attractive objects by combining RGB and thermal infrared images. To enhance performance, the Segment Anything Model has been fine-tuned for this task. However, the imbalance convergence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zhengyi Liu , Xinrui Wang , Xianyong Fang , Zhengzheng Tu , Linbo Wang

Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment the most prominent objects in images. Advanced SOD methods often utilize various Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) or Transformers for deep feature extraction. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Shixuan Gao , Pingping Zhang , Tianyu Yan , Huchuan Lu

Salient object detection (SOD) extracts meaningful contents from an input image. RGB-based SOD methods lack the complementary depth clues; hence, providing limited performance for complex scenarios. Similarly, RGB-D models process RGB and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Tanveer Hussain , Abbas Anwar , Saeed Anwar , Lars Petersson , Sung Wook Baik

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