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Fully supervised salient object detection (SOD) has made considerable progress based on expensive and time-consuming data with pixel-wise annotations. Recently, to relieve the labeling burden while maintaining performance, some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Binwei Xu , Haoran Liang , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

Recent progress on salient object detection (SOD) mainly benefits from multi-scale learning, where the high-level and low-level features collaborate in locating salient objects and discovering fine details, respectively. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yu-Huan Wu , Yun Liu , Le Zhang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Ren

Despite their irresistible success, deep learning algorithms still heavily rely on annotated data. On the other hand, unsupervised settings pose many challenges, especially about determining the right inductive bias in diverse scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Beril Besbinar , Pascal Frossard

Recent progress on saliency detection is substantial, benefiting mostly from the explosive development of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Semantic segmentation and saliency detection algorithms developed lately have been mostly based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiao-Wei Hu , Ali Borji , Zhuowen Tu , Philip Torr

Video salient object detection models trained on pixel-wise dense annotation have achieved excellent performance, yet obtaining pixel-by-pixel annotated datasets is laborious. Several works attempt to use scribble annotations to mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Shuyong Gao , Haozhe Xing , Wei Zhang , Yan Wang , Qianyu Guo , Wenqiang Zhang

With large numbers of transients discovered by current and future imaging surveys, machine learning is increasingly applied to light curve and host galaxy properties to select events for follow-up. However, finding rare types of transients…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Xinyue Sheng , Tuan Dung Pham , Zichi Zhang , Matt Nicholl , Thai Son Mai

Graph machine learning has been widely explored in various domains, such as community detection, transaction analysis, and recommendation systems. In these applications, anomaly detection plays an important role. Recently, studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Wei Herng Choong , Jixing Liu , Ching-Yu Kao , Philip Sperl

Despite the powerful feature extraction capability of Convolutional Neural Networks, there are still some challenges in saliency detection. In this paper, we focus on two aspects of challenges: i) Since salient objects appear in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Mehrdad Noori , Sina Mohammadi , Sina Ghofrani Majelan , Ali Bahri , Mohammad Havaei

We study the problem of Salient Object Subitizing, i.e. predicting the existence and the number of salient objects in an image using holistic cues. This task is inspired by the ability of people to quickly and accurately identify the number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Jianming Zhang , Shugao Ma , Mehrnoosh Sameki , Stan Sclaroff , Margrit Betke , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Brian Price , Radomir Mech

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

Deep learning has led to great progress in the detection of mobile (i.e. movement-capable) objects in urban driving scenes in recent years. Supervised approaches typically require the annotation of large training sets; there has thus been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Sangyun Shin , Stuart Golodetz , Madhu Vankadari , Kaichen Zhou , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Salient object detection aims to locate objects that capture human attention within images. Previous approaches often pose this as a problem of image contrast analysis. In this work, we model an image as a hypergraph that utilizes a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Xi Li , Yao Li , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel

With the recent successful adaptation of transformers to the vision domain, particularly when trained in a self-supervised fashion, it has been shown that vision transformers can learn impressive object-reasoning-like behaviour and features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Oscar Vikström , Alexander Ilin

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

The challenge of fine-grained visual recognition often lies in discovering the key discriminative regions. While such regions can be automatically identified from a large-scale labeled dataset, a similar method might become less effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yangyang Shu , Baosheng Yu , Haiming Xu , Lingqiao Liu

We propose Cut-and-LEaRn (CutLER), a simple approach for training unsupervised object detection and segmentation models. We leverage the property of self-supervised models to 'discover' objects without supervision and amplify it to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Xudong Wang , Rohit Girdhar , Stella X. Yu , Ishan Misra

Infrared small target detection based on deep learning offers unique advantages in separating small targets from complex and dynamic backgrounds. However, the features of infrared small targets gradually weaken as the depth of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Chun Bao , Jie Cao , Yaqian Ning , Tianhua Zhao , Zhijun Li , Zechen Wang , Li Zhang , Qun Hao

This paper presents a novel yet intuitive approach to unsupervised feature learning. Inspired by the human visual system, we explore whether low-level motion-based grouping cues can be used to learn an effective visual representation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Deepak Pathak , Ross Girshick , Piotr Dollár , Trevor Darrell , Bharath Hariharan

Multi-grained features extracted from convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated their strong discrimination ability in supervised person re-identification (Re-ID) tasks. Inspired by them, this work investigates the way of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Jiachen Li , Menglin Wang , Xiaojin Gong

One of the most important factors in training object recognition networks using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is the provision of annotated data accompanying human judgment. Particularly, in object detection or semantic segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Min-Kook Choi , Jaehyeong Park , Jihun Jung , Heechul Jung , Jin-Hee Lee , Woong Jae Won , Woo Young Jung , Jincheol Kim , Soon Kwon