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Transformers trained with self-supervised learning using self-distillation loss (DINO) have been shown to produce attention maps that highlight salient foreground objects. In this paper, we demonstrate a graph-based approach that uses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Yangtao Wang , Xi Shen , Shell Hu , Yuan Yuan , James Crowley , Dominique Vaufreydaz

Video salient object detection (SOD) relies on motion cues to distinguish salient objects from backgrounds, but training such models is limited by scarce video datasets compared to abundant image datasets. Existing approaches that use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Jungho Lee , Sunghun Yang , Sangyoun Lee

Although most existing multi-modal salient object detection (SOD) methods demonstrate effectiveness through training models from scratch, the limited multi-modal data hinders these methods from reaching optimality. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Kunpeng Wang , Danying Lin , Chenglong Li , Zhengzheng Tu , Bin Luo

Alignment-free RGB-Thermal (RGB-T) salient object detection (SOD) aims to achieve robust performance in complex scenes by directly leveraging the complementary information from unaligned visible-thermal image pairs, without requiring manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Kunpeng Wang , Keke Chen , Chenglong Li , Zhengzheng Tu , Bin Luo

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

Salient object detection on RGB-D images is an active topic in computer vision. Although the existing methods have achieved appreciable performance, there are still some challenges. The locality of convolutional neural network requires that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Xian Fang , Jinshao Zhu , Xiuli Shao , Hongpeng Wang

Recent deep learning-based video salient object detection (VSOD) has achieved some breakthrough, but these methods rely on expensive annotated videos with pixel-wise annotations, weak annotations, or part of the pixel-wise annotations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Binwei Xu , Haoran Liang , Wentian Ni , Weihua Gong , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

With the goal of identifying pixel-wise salient object regions from each input image, salient object detection (SOD) has been receiving great attention in recent years. One kind of mainstream SOD methods is formed by a bottom-up feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Chaowei Fang , Haibin Tian , Dingwen Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han , Junwei Han

Salient object detection (SOD) focuses on distinguishing the most conspicuous objects in the scene. However, most related works are based on RGB images, which lose massive useful information. Accordingly, with the maturity of thermal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yuxuan Wang , Feng Dong , Jinchao Zhu

Autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV)-based bi-modal salient object detection (BSOD) aims to segment salient objects in a scene utilizing complementary cues in unaligned RGB and thermal image pairs. However, the high computational expense of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Pengfei Lyu , Pak-Hei Yeung , Xiaosheng Yu , Xiufei Cheng , Chengdong Wu , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Despite the growing success of Convolution neural networks (CNN) in the recent past in the task of scene segmentation, the standard models lack some of the important features that might result in sub-optimal segmentation outputs. The widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Soham Chattopadhyay , Hritam Basak

The reasonable employment of RGB and depth data show great significance in promoting the development of computer vision tasks and robot-environment interaction. However, there are different advantages and disadvantages in the early and late…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Jinchao Zhu

Due to the more dramatic multi-scale variations and more complicated foregrounds and backgrounds in optical remote sensing images (RSIs), the salient object detection (SOD) for optical RSIs becomes a huge challenge. However, different from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Yuhan Lin , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu , Yetong Bian , Jun Cen , Huiyu Zhou

We present an advanced study on more challenging high-resolution salient object detection (HRSOD) from both dataset and network framework perspectives. To compensate for the lack of HRSOD dataset, we thoughtfully collect a large-scale high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Changqun Xia , Chenxi Xie , Zhentao He , Tianshu Yu , Jia Li

This paper presents a co-salient object detection method to find common salient regions in a set of images. We utilize deep saliency networks to transfer co-saliency prior knowledge and better capture high-level semantic information, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Dong-ju Jeong , Insung Hwang , Nam Ik Cho

By the aid of attention mechanisms to weight the image features adaptively, recent advanced deep learning-based models encourage the predicted results to approximate the ground-truth masks with as large predictable areas as possible, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Jia Li , Jinming Su , Changqun Xia , Mingcan Ma , Yonghong Tian

In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient CNN-based framework that leverages local and global context information for image denoising. Due to the limitations of convolution itself, the CNN-based method is generally unable to construct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 QiFan Li

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 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

Aiming at discovering and locating most distinctive objects from visual scenes, salient object detection (SOD) plays an essential role in various computer vision systems. Coming to the era of high resolution, SOD methods are facing new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Lv Tang , Bo Li , Shouhong Ding , Mofei Song