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The camouflaged object detection (COD) task aims to identify and segment objects that blend into the background due to their similar color or texture. Despite the inherent difficulties of the task, COD has gained considerable attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Chaewon Park , Dogyoon Lee , Jungho Lee , Sangyoun Lee

We consider the problem of referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD), a new task that aims to segment specified camouflaged objects based on a small set of referring images with salient target objects. We first assemble a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuying Zhang , Bowen Yin , Zheng Lin , Qibin Hou , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng

Camouflaged object detection intends to discover the concealed objects hidden in the surroundings. Existing methods follow the bio-inspired framework, which first locates the object and second refines the boundary. We argue that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Zhengyi Liu , Zhili Zhang , Wei Wu

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to identify objects that blend seamlessly into natural scenes. Although RGB-based methods have advanced, their performance remains limited under challenging conditions. Multispectral imagery,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yang Li , Tingfa Xu , Shuyan Bai , Peifu Liu , Jianan Li

Recent camouflaged object detection (COD) attempts to segment objects visually blended into their surroundings, which is extremely complex and difficult in real-world scenarios. Apart from the high intrinsic similarity between camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Camouflaged object detection (COD), which aims to identify the objects that conceal themselves into the surroundings, has recently drawn increasing research efforts in the field of computer vision. In practice, the success of deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Geng Chen , Xinrui Chen , Bo Dong , Mingchen Zhuge , Yongxiong Wang , Hongbo Bi , Jian Chen , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Camouflaged object detection and segmentation is a new and challenging research topic in computer vision. There is a serious issue of lacking data on concealed objects such as camouflaged animals in natural scenes. In this paper, we address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Thanh-Danh Nguyen , Anh-Khoa Nguyen Vu , Nhat-Duy Nguyen , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Thanh Duc Ngo , Thanh-Toan Do , Minh-Triet Tran , Tam V. Nguyen

Camouflaged objects are typically assimilated into their backgrounds and exhibit fuzzy boundaries. The complex environmental conditions and the high intrinsic similarity between camouflaged targets and their surroundings pose significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Tianyou Chen , Jin Xiao , Xiaoguang Hu , Guofeng Zhang , Shaojie Wang

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to segment targets that share extreme textural and structural similarities with their complex environments. Leveraging their capacity for long-range dependency modeling, Transformer-based detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuhan Gao , Shuhao Kang , Xin He , Bing Li , Xu Cheng , Yun Liu

Existing Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) methods rely heavily on large-scale pixel-annotated training sets, which are both time-consuming and labor-intensive. Although weakly supervised methods offer higher annotation efficiency, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jin Zhang , Ruiheng Zhang , Yanjiao Shi , Zhe Cao , Nian Liu , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Big model has emerged as a new research paradigm that can be applied to various down-stream tasks with only minor effort for domain adaption. Correspondingly, this study tackles Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) leveraging the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Guoying Liang , Su Yang

Confidence-aware learning is proven as an effective solution to prevent networks becoming overconfident. We present a confidence-aware camouflaged object detection framework using dynamic supervision to produce both accurate camouflage map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Jiawei Liu , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

Camouflage object detection (COD) poses a significant challenge due to the high resemblance between camouflaged objects and their surroundings. Although current deep learning methods have made significant progress in detecting camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yuchen Dong , Heng Zhou , Chengyang Li , Junjie Xie , Yongqiang Xie , Zhongbo Li

Achieving joint learning of Salient Object Detection (SOD) and Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) is extremely challenging due to their distinct object characteristics, i.e., saliency and camouflage. The only preliminary research treats…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yi Liu , Chengxin Li , Xiaohui Dong , Lei Li , Dingwen Zhang , Shoukun Xu , Jungong Han

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

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment objects visually embedded in their surroundings, which is a very challenging task due to the high similarity between the objects and the background. To address it, most methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhennan Chen , Xuying Zhang , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Ying Tai

The objective of this paper is to design a computational architecture that discovers camouflaged objects in videos, specifically by exploiting motion information to perform object segmentation. We make the following three contributions: (i)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Hala Lamdouar , Charig Yang , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to detect objects with similar patterns (e.g., texture, intensity, colour, etc) to their surroundings, and recently has attracted growing research interest. As camouflaged objects often present very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Ge-Peng Ji , Lei Zhu , Mingchen Zhuge , Keren Fu

Visual salient object detection (SOD) aims at finding the salient object(s) that attract human attention, while camouflaged object detection (COD) on the contrary intends to discover the camouflaged object(s) that hidden in the surrounding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Aixuan Li , Jing Zhang , Yunqiu Lv , Bowen Liu , Tong Zhang , 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