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Referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD) aims to identify hidden objects by incorporating reference information such as images and text descriptions. Previous research has transformed reference images with salient objects into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yu Wen , Shuyong Gao , Shuping Zhang , Miao Huang , Lili Tao , Han Yang , Haozhe Xing , Lihe Zhang , Boxue Hou

This paper introduces a new approach to the long-term tracking of an object in a challenging environment. The object is a cow and the environment is an enclosure in a cowshed. Some of the key challenges in this domain are a cluttered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Aram Ter-Sarkisov , Robert Ross , John Kelleher

Camouflaged object detection (COD) from a single image is a challenging task due to the high similarity between objects and their surroundings. Existing fully supervised methods require labor-intensive pixel-level annotations, making weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xia Li , Xinran Liu , Lin Qi , Junyu Dong

This manuscript introduces the problem of prominent object detection and recognition inspired by the fact that human seems to priorities perception of scene elements. The problem deals with finding the most important region of interest,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Hamed R. Tavakoli , Jorma Laaksonen

Learning object segmentation in image and video datasets without human supervision is a challenging problem. Humans easily identify moving salient objects in videos using the gestalt principle of common fate, which suggests that what moves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Silky Singh , Shripad Deshmukh , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Accurate object segmentation is a crucial task in the context of robotic manipulation. However, creating sufficient annotated training data for neural networks is particularly time consuming and often requires manual labeling. To this end,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Wout Boerdijk , Martin Sundermeyer , Maximilian Durner , Rudolph Triebel

We propose a method that learns to camouflage 3D objects within scenes. Given an object's shape and a distribution of viewpoints from which it will be seen, we estimate a texture that will make it difficult to detect. Successfully solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Rui Guo , Jasmine Collins , Oscar de Lima , Andrew Owens

How to identify and segment camouflaged objects from the background is challenging. Inspired by the multi-head self-attention in Transformers, we present a simple masked separable attention (MSA) for camouflaged object detection. We first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Bowen Yin , Xuying Zhang , Qibin Hou , Bo-Yuan Sun , Deng-Ping Fan , Luc Van Gool

We present a reinforcement learning approach for detecting objects within an image. Our approach performs a step-wise deformation of a bounding box with the goal of tightly framing the object. It uses a hierarchical tree-like representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Jonas Koenig , Simon Malberg , Martin Martens , Sebastian Niehaus , Artus Krohn-Grimberghe , Arunselvan Ramaswamy

Semi-supervised Camouflaged Object Detection (SSCOD) aims to reduce reliance on costly pixel-level annotations by leveraging limited annotated data and abundant unlabeled data. However, existing SSCOD methods based on Teacher-Student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xihang Hu , Fuming Sun , Jiazhe Liu , Feilong Xu , Xiaoli Zhang

Traditional object detection answers two questions; "what" (what the object is?) and "where" (where the object is?). "what" part of the object detection can be fine-grained further i.e. "what type", "what shape" and "what material" etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Addel Zafar , Umar Khalid

Referring Camouflaged Object Detection (Ref-COD) segments specified camouflaged objects in a scene by leveraging a small set of referring images. Though effective, current systems adopt a dual-branch design that requires reference images at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yu-Huan Wu , Zi-Xuan Zhu , Yan Wang , Liangli Zhen , Deng-Ping Fan

Camouflaged object detection (COD) primarily focuses on learning subtle yet discriminative representations from complex scenes. Existing methods predominantly follow the parametric feedforward architecture based on static visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Chenxi Zhang , Jiayun Wu , Qing Zhang , Yazhe Zhai , Youwei Pang

Not all camouflages are equally effective, as even a partially visible contour or a slight color difference can make the animal stand out and break its camouflage. In this paper, we address the question of what makes a camouflage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Hala Lamdouar , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

At the core of Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) lies segmenting objects from their highly similar surroundings. Previous efforts navigate this challenge primarily through image-level modeling or annotation-based optimization. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ji Du , Xin Wang , Fangwei Hao , Mingyang Yu , Chunyuan Chen , Jiesheng Wu , Bin Wang , Jing Xu , Ping Li

Most object detectors operate under a closed-world assumption, recognizing only the classes annotated in the training dataset and failing when encountering novel objects. Open-World Object Detection (OWOD) relaxes this assumption by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuchen Zhang , Yao Lu , Johannes Betz

Existing camouflaged object detection~(COD) methods depend heavily on large-scale pixel-level annotations.However, acquiring such annotations is laborious due to the inherent camouflage characteristics of the objects.Semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Xunfa Lai , Zhiyu Yang , Jie Hu , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao , Guannan Jiang , Zhiyu Wang , Songan Zhang , Rongrong Ji

This paper introduces a new Segment Anything Model with Depth Perception (DSAM) for Camouflaged Object Detection (COD). DSAM exploits the zero-shot capability of SAM to realize precise segmentation in the RGB-D domain. It consists of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zhenni Yu , Xiaoqin Zhang , Li Zhao , Yi Bin , Guobao Xiao

Constrained objects, such as doors and drawers are often complex and share a similar structure in the human environment. A robot needs to interact accurately with constrained objects to safely and successfully complete a task. Learning from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Xiang Zhang , Matteo Saveriano , Justus Piater

We study the problem of unsupervised discovery and segmentation of object parts, which, as an intermediate local representation, are capable of finding intrinsic object structure and providing more explainable recognition results. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Shilong Liu , Lei Zhang , Xiao Yang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu