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Salient object detection (SOD) in optical remote sensing images (ORSIs) has become increasingly popular recently. Due to the characteristics of ORSIs, ORSI-SOD is full of challenges, such as multiple objects, small objects, low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Gongyang Li , Zhen Bai , Zhi Liu

This paper presents a new deep neural network design for salient object detection by maximizing the integration of local and global image context within, around, and beyond the salient objects. Our key idea is to adaptively propagate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Xiaowei Hu , Chi-Wing Fu , Lei Zhu , Tianyu Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Salient object detection plays an important role in many downstream tasks. However, complex real-world scenes with varying scales and numbers of salient objects still pose a challenge. In this paper, we directly address the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Bowen Deng , Andrew P. French , Michael P. Pound

Arising from the various object types and scales, diverse imaging orientations, and cluttered backgrounds in optical remote sensing image (RSI), it is difficult to directly extend the success of salient object detection for nature scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Chongyi Li , Runmin Cong , Junhui Hou , Sanyi Zhang , Yue Qian , Sam Kwong

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

Salient object detection (SOD) in optical remote sensing images (RSIs), or RSI-SOD, is an emerging topic in understanding optical RSIs. However, due to the difference between optical RSIs and natural scene images (NSIs), directly applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Gongyang Li , Zhi Liu , Dan Zeng , Weisi Lin , Haibin Ling

Salient Object Detection (SOD) plays a crucial role in many computer vision applications, requiring accurate localization and precise boundary delineation of salient regions. In this work, we present a novel framework that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abhinav Sagar

Beneficial from Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (FCNs), saliency detection methods have achieved promising results. However, it is still challenging to learn effective features for detecting salient objects in complicated scenarios, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Sina Mohammadi , Mehrdad Noori , Ali Bahri , Sina Ghofrani Majelan , Mohammad Havaei

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

Recent salient object detection (SOD) models predominantly rely on heavyweight backbones, incurring substantial computational cost and hindering their practical application in various real-world settings, particularly on edge devices. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yu-Huan Wu , Wei Liu , Zi-Xuan Zhu , Zizhou Wang , Yong Liu , Liangli Zhen

While the human visual system employs distinct mechanisms to perceive salient and camouflaged objects, existing models struggle to disentangle these tasks. Specifically, salient object detection (SOD) models frequently misclassify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhangjun Zhou , Yiping Li , Chunlin Zhong , Jianuo Huang , Jialun Pei , Hua Li , He Tang

Despite the remarkable advances in visual saliency analysis for natural scene images (NSIs), salient object detection (SOD) for optical remote sensing images (RSIs) still remains an open and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Qijian Zhang , Runmin Cong , Chongyi Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yuming Fang , Xiaochun Cao , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

Most existing salient object detection (SOD) models are difficult to apply due to the complex and huge model structures. Although some lightweight models are proposed, the accuracy is barely satisfactory. In this paper, we design a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jin Zhang , Qiuwei Liang , Yanjiao Shi

Salient object detection (SOD) is a fundamental computer vision task. Recently, with the revival of deep neural networks, SOD has made great progresses. However, there still exist two thorny issues that cannot be well addressed by existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Lv Tang , Bo Li

Salient object detection (SOD) is a crucial and preliminary task for many computer vision applications, which have made progress with deep CNNs. Most of the existing methods mainly rely on the RGB information to distinguish the salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Jiawei Zhao , Yifan Zhao , Jia Li , Xiaowu Chen

Recently, deep learning-based salient object detection (SOD) in optical remote sensing images (ORSIs) have achieved significant breakthroughs. We observe that existing ORSIs-SOD methods consistently center around optimizing pixel features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yanguang Sun , Jian Yang , Lei Luo

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

Salient object detection (SOD) in complex environments remains a challenging research topic. Most existing methods perform well in natural scenes with negligible noise, and tend to leverage multi-modal information (e.g., depth and infrared)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Quan Chen , Xiong Yang , Bolun Zheng , Rongfeng Lu , Xiaokai Yang , Qianyu Zhang , Yu Liu , Xiaofei Zhou

Benefiting from color independence, illumination invariance and location discrimination attributed by the depth map, it can provide important supplemental information for extracting salient objects in complex environments. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Xiaoqi Zhao , Youwei Pang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Accurate and robust detection of multi-class objects in optical remote sensing images is essential to many real-world applications such as urban planning, traffic control, searching and rescuing, etc. However, state-of-the-art object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Gongjie Zhang , Shijian Lu , Wei Zhang