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In this work, we propose an efficient and effective approach for unconstrained salient object detection in images using deep convolutional neural networks. Instead of generating thousands of candidate bounding boxes and refining them, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Mahyar Najibi , Fan Yang , Qiaosong Wang , Robinson Piramuthu

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

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

Co-Salient Object Detection (CoSOD) aims at simulating the human visual system to discover the common and salient objects from a group of relevant images. Recent methods typically develop sophisticated deep learning based models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Lv Tang , Bo Li

Previous RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) methods have widely adopted deep learning tools to automatically strike a trade-off between RGB and D (depth), whose key rationale is to take full advantage of their complementary nature, aiming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Xuehao Wang , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

The existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) video salient object detection (VSOD) models have widely followed short-term methodology, which dynamically determines the balance between spatial and temporal saliency fusion by solely considering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Chenglizhao Chen , Hengsen Wang , Yuming Fang , Chong Peng

Salient object detection (SOD) on RGB and depth images has attracted more and more research interests, due to its effectiveness and the fact that depth cues can now be conveniently captured. Existing RGB-D SOD models usually adopt different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Tao Zhou , Deng-Ping Fan , Geng Chen , Yi Zhou , Huazhu Fu

Salient object detection has become an important task in many image processing applications. The existing approaches exploit background prior and contrast prior to attain state of the art results. In this paper, instead of using background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Sai Srivatsa R , R. Venkatesh Babu

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

Recently, salient object detection (SOD) methods have achieved impressive performance. However, salient regions predicted by existing methods usually contain unsaturated regions and shadows, which limits the model for reliable fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yao Yuan , Pan Gao , Qun Dai , Jie Qin , Wei Xiang

In this paper, we propose a fast deep learning method for object saliency detection using convolutional neural networks. In our approach, we use a gradient descent method to iteratively modify the input images based on the pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Hengyue Pan , Hui Jiang

We propose a novel method for salient object detection in different images. Our method integrates spatial features for efficient and robust representation to capture meaningful information about the salient objects. We then train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Abdullah J. Alzahrani , Hina Afridi

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

Salient object detection (SOD) and camouflaged object detection (COD) are two closely related but distinct computer vision tasks. Although both are class-agnostic segmentation tasks that map from RGB space to binary space, the former aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Chao Hao , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Yuhao Wang , Weicheng Xie , Jingang Shi , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment the most conspicuous objects in an image or video. As an important pre-processing step, it has many potential applications in multimedia and vision tasks. With the advance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xinhao Deng , Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu

Fully Convolutional Neural Network (FCN) has been widely applied to salient object detection recently by virtue of high-level semantic feature extraction, but existing FCN based methods still suffer from continuous striding and pooling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Zhengzheng Tu , Yan Ma , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Salient object detection (SOD) aims to segment visually prominent regions in images and serves as a foundational task for various computer vision applications. We posit that SOD can now reach near-supervised accuracy without a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Muhammad Umer Ramzan , Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , Noman Ali , Usman Ali , Wei Xiang

Salient object detection (SOD) and camouflaged object detection (COD) are related yet distinct binary mapping tasks. These tasks involve multiple modalities, sharing commonalities and unique cues. Existing research often employs intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Ziyang Luo , Nian Liu , Wangbo Zhao , Xuguang Yang , Dingwen Zhang , Deng-Ping Fan , Fahad Khan , Junwei Han

Fixation prediction (FP) in panoramic contents has been widely investigated along with the booming trend of virtual reality (VR) applications. However, another issue within the field of visual saliency, salient object detection (SOD), has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Yi Zhang , Lu Zhang , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

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