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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

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) demand robust spatial perception capabilities, including Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), to support both remote and autonomous tasks. Vision-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Pushyami Kaveti , Ambjorn Grimsrud Waldum , Hanumant Singh , Martin Ludvigsen

Though deep learning techniques have made great progress in salient object detection recently, the predicted saliency maps still suffer from incomplete predictions due to the internal complexity of objects and inaccurate boundaries caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Runmin Wu , Mengyang Feng , Wenlong Guan , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Errui Ding

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

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

Current methods aggregate multi-level features or introduce edge and skeleton to get more refined saliency maps. However, little attention is paid to how to obtain the complete salient object in cluttered background, where the targets are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Ge Zhu , Jinbao Li , Yahong Guo

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

Deep convolutional neural network significantly boosted the capability of salient object detection in handling large variations of scenes and object appearances. However, convolution operations seek to generate strong responses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Sanping Zhou , Jimuyang Zhang , Jinjun Wang , Fei Wang , Dong Huang

Most existing salient object detection methods mostly use U-Net or feature pyramid structure, which simply aggregates feature maps of different scales, ignoring the uniqueness and interdependence of them and their respective contributions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Yao Yuan , Pan Gao , XiaoYang Tan

Underwater salient object detection (USOD) has attracted increasing attention for underwater visual scene understanding and vision-guided robotic applications. However, existing USOD methods still struggle with underwater image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Lin Hong , Chenhui Wang , Linan Deng , Yuning Cui , Yu Zhang , Xin Wang , Bojian Zhang , Wenqi Ren , Xingchen Yang , Fumin Zhang

Deep learning-based video salient object detection has recently achieved great success with its performance significantly outperforming any other unsupervised methods. However, existing data-driven approaches heavily rely on a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Pengxiang Yan , Guanbin Li , Yuan Xie , Zhen Li , Chuan Wang , Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin

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

Weakly-supervised salient object detection (WSOD) aims to develop saliency models using image-level annotations. Despite of the success of previous works, explorations on an effective training strategy for the saliency network and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yongri Piao , Jian Wang , Miao Zhang , Zhengxuan Ma , Huchuan Lu

Depth can provide useful geographical cues for salient object detection (SOD), and has been proven helpful in recent RGB-D SOD methods. However, existing video salient object detection (VSOD) methods only utilize spatiotemporal information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yukang Lu , Dingyao Min , Keren Fu , Qijun Zhao

Salient object detection (SOD), 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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

In this paper, we present the first large-scale dataset for semantic Segmentation of Underwater IMagery (SUIM). It contains over 1500 images with pixel annotations for eight object categories: fish (vertebrates), reefs (invertebrates),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Md Jahidul Islam , Chelsey Edge , Yuyang Xiao , Peigen Luo , Muntaqim Mehtaz , Christopher Morse , Sadman Sakib Enan , Junaed Sattar

A new approach to seismic interpretation is proposed to leverage visual perception and human visual system modeling. Specifically, a saliency detection algorithm based on a novel attention model is proposed for identifying subsurface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Muhammad Amir Shafiq , Zhiling Long , Haibin Di , Ghassan AlRegib

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

Visual attention modeling, important for interpreting and prioritizing visual stimuli, plays a significant role in applications such as marketing, multimedia, and robotics. Traditional saliency prediction models, especially those based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Alireza Hosseini , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Saeed Akhavan , Michael Brudno , Babak Taati

Salient object detection is inherently a subjective problem, as observers with different priors may perceive different objects as salient. However, existing methods predominantly formulate it as an objective prediction task with a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Fuxi Zhang , Yifan Wang , Hengrun Zhao , Zhuohan Sun , Changxing Xia , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu , Yangrui Shao , Chen Yang , Long Teng