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Salient object detection has seen remarkable progress driven by deep learning techniques. However, most of deep learning based salient object detection methods are black-box in nature and lacking in interpretability. This paper proposes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Huaxin Xiao , Jiashi Feng , Yunchao Wei , Maojun Zhang

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

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

In recent years, three-dimensional point clouds are used increasingly to document natural environments. Each dataset contains a diverse set of objects, at varying shapes and sizes, distributed throughout the data and intricately intertwined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Reuma Arav , Dennis Wittich , Franz Rottensteiner

Existing salient object detection methods are capable of predicting binary maps that highlight visually salient regions. However, these methods are limited in their ability to differentiate the relative importance of multiple objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Mengke Song , Linfeng Li , Dunquan Wu , Wenfeng Song , Chenglizhao Chen

This paper investigates a fundamental yet underexplored issue in Salient Object Detection (SOD): the size-invariant property for evaluation protocols, particularly in scenarios when multiple salient objects of significantly different sizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Shilong Bao , Qianqian Xu , Feiran Li , Boyu Han , Zhiyong Yang , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Compared with laborious pixel-wise dense labeling, it is much easier to label data by scribbles, which only costs 1$\sim$2 seconds to label one image. However, using scribble labels to learn salient object detection has not been explored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Jing Zhang , Xin Yu , Aixuan Li , Peipei Song , Bowen Liu , Yuchao Dai

Salient object detection exemplifies data-bounded tasks where expensive pixel-precise annotations force separate model training for related subtasks like DIS and HR-SOD. We present a method that dramatically improves generalization through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Orest Kupyn , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Christian Rupprecht

Despite recent improvements in computer vision, artificial visual systems' design is still daunting since an explanation of visual computing algorithms remains elusive. Salient object detection is one problem that is still open due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Gustavo Olague , Jose Armando Menendez-Clavijo , Matthieu Olague , Arturo Ocampo , Gerardo Ibarra-Vazquez , Rocio Ochoa , Roberto Pineda

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

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

Salient Object Ranking (SOR) involves ranking the degree of saliency of multiple salient objects in an input image. Most recently, a method is proposed for ranking salient objects in an input video based on a predicted fixation map. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Jiaying Lin , Huankang Guan , Rynson W. H. Lau

Salient object detection is the task of producing a binary mask for an image that deciphers which pixels belong to the foreground object versus background. We introduce a new salient object detection dataset using images taken by people who…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Jarek Reynolds , Chandra Kanth Nagesh , Danna Gurari

Recently, general salient object detection (SOD) has made great progress with the rapid development of deep neural networks. However, task-aware SOD has hardly been studied due to the lack of task-specific datasets. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Jinming Su , Changqun Xia , Jia Li

Computer vision-based deep learning object detection algorithms have been developed sufficiently powerful to support the ability to recognize various objects. Although there are currently general datasets for object detection, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Rui Duan , Hui Deng , Mao Tian , Yichuan Deng , Jiarui Lin

Recent progress on salient object detection mainly aims at exploiting how to effectively integrate convolutional side-output features in convolutional neural networks (CNN). Based on this, most of the existing state-of-the-art saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yun Liu , Yu Qiu , Le Zhang , JiaWang Bian , Guang-Yu Nie , Ming-Ming Cheng

Instance segmentation can detect where the objects are in an image, but hard to understand the relationship between them. We pay attention to a typical relationship, relative saliency. A closely related task, salient object detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Hao Fang , Daoxin Zhang , Yi Zhang , Minghao Chen , Jiawei Li , Yao Hu , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

Recent research advances in salient object detection (SOD) could largely be attributed to ever-stronger multi-scale feature representation empowered by the deep learning technologies. The existing SOD deep models extract multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Hong Qin , Aimin Hao

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

Salient object detection has been long studied to identify the most visually attractive objects in images/videos. Recently, a growing amount of approaches have been proposed all of which rely on the contour/edge information to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yue Song , Hao Tang , Nicu Sebe , Wei Wang