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Concealed object detection (COD) in cluttered scenes is significant for various image processing applications. However, due to that concealed objects are always similar to their background, it is extremely hard to distinguish them. Here,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuhan Kang , Qingpeng Li , Leyuan Fang , Jian Zhao , Xuelong Li

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to detect objects with camouflaged properties. Although previous studies have focused on natural (animals and insects) and unnatural (artistic and synthetic) camouflage detection, plant camouflage has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jinyu Yang , Qingwei Wang , Feng Zheng , Peng Chen , Aleš Leonardis , Deng-Ping Fan

Discovering camouflaged objects is a challenging task in computer vision due to the high similarity between camouflaged objects and their surroundings. While the problem of camouflaged object detection over sequential video frames has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Siyuan Yao , Hao Sun , Ruiqi Yu , Xiwei Jiang , Wenqi Ren , Xiaochun Cao

Existing camouflaged object detection (COD) methods rely heavily on large-scale datasets with pixel-wise annotations. However, due to the ambiguous boundary, annotating camouflage objects pixel-wisely is very time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ruozhen He , Qihua Dong , Jiaying Lin , Rynson W. H. Lau

Existing edge-aware camouflaged object detection (COD) methods normally output the edge prediction in the early stage. However, edges are important and fundamental factors in the following segmentation task. Due to the high visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Dongyue Sun , Shiyao Jiang , Lin Qi

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to segment objects that blend seamlessly into complex backgrounds, with growing interest in exploiting additional visual modalities to enhance robustness through complementary information. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hao Wang , Jiqing Zhang , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Lu Jiang , Zetian Mi , Huibing Wang

The task of Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to accurately segment camouflaged objects that integrated into the environment, which is more challenging than ordinary detection as the texture between the target and background is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yuxuan Song , Xinyue Li , Lin Qi

Moving object detection and tracking have various applications, including surveillance, anomaly detection, vehicle navigation, etc. The literature on object detection and tracking is rich enough, and several essential survey papers exist.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Ajoy Mondal

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment camouflaged objects which exhibit very similar patterns with the surrounding environment. Recent research works have shown that enhancing the feature representation via the frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Shizhou Zhang , Dexuan Kong , Yinghui Xing , Yue Lu , Lingyan Ran , Guoqiang Liang , Hexu Wang , Yanning Zhang

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to segment objects that are highly integrated with the background in terms of color, texture, and structure, making it a highly challenging task in computer vision. Although existing methods introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Min Zhang

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive study on a new task called collaborative camouflaged object detection (CoCOD), which aims to simultaneously detect camouflaged objects with the same properties from a group of relevant images. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Cong Zhang , Hongbo Bi , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Ranwan Wu , Jinghui Tong , Xiufang Wang

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

Pedestrian detection is fundamental to autonomous driving, robotics, and surveillance. Despite progress in deep learning, reliable identification remains challenging due to occlusions, cluttered backgrounds, and degraded visibility. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Henry O. Velesaca , Andrea Mero , Guillermo A. Castillo , Angel D. Sappa

Camouflaged objects that blend into natural scenes pose significant challenges for deep-learning models to detect and synthesize. While camouflaged object detection is a crucial task in computer vision with diverse real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Haichao Zhang , Can Qin , Yu Yin , Yun Fu

In the domain of Camouflaged Object Segmentation (COS), despite continuous improvements in segmentation performance, the underlying mechanisms of effective camouflage remain poorly understood, akin to a black box. To address this gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Hong Zhang , Yixuan Lyu , Qian Yu , Hanyang Liu , Huimin Ma , Ding Yuan , Yifan Yang

Camouflaged object detection (COD) presents a persistent challenge in accurately identifying objects that seamlessly blend into their surroundings. However, most existing COD models overlook the fact that visual systems operate within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-12 Xinran Liua , Lin Qia , Yuxuan Songa , Qi Wen

Recent research about camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment highly concealed objects hidden in complex surroundings. The tiny, fuzzy camouflaged objects result in visually indistinguishable properties. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Dehua Zheng , Xiaochen Zheng , Laurence T. Yang , Yuan Gao , Chenlu Zhu , Yiheng Ruan

With the human pursuit of knowledge, open-set object detection (OSOD) has been designed to identify unknown objects in a dynamic world. However, an issue with the current setting is that all the predicted unknown objects share the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jiyang Zheng , Weihao Li , Jie Hong , Lars Petersson , Nick Barnes

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to detect/segment camouflaged objects embedded in the environment, which has attracted increasing attention over the past decades. Although several COD methods have been developed, they still suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Tao Zhou , Yi Zhou , Chen Gong , Jian Yang , Yu Zhang

Camouflaged object segmentation (COS) aims to identify objects that are "perfectly" assimilate into their surroundings, which has a wide range of valuable applications. The key challenge of COS is that there exist high intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Haiyang Mei , Ge-Peng Ji , Ziqi Wei , Xin Yang , Xiaopeng Wei , Deng-Ping Fan