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Camouflaged object detection (COD) is a challenging task due to the low boundary contrast between the object and its surroundings. In addition, the appearance of camouflaged objects varies significantly, e.g., object size and shape,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Yujia Sun , Geng Chen , Tao Zhou , Yi Zhang , Nian Liu

Spotting camouflaged objects that are visually assimilated into the background is tricky for both object detection algorithms and humans who are usually confused or cheated by the perfectly intrinsic similarities between the foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Xiaobin Hu , Shuo Wang , Xuebin Qin , Hang Dai , Wenqi Ren , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Ling Shao

The core challenge in Camouflage Object Detection (COD) lies in the indistinguishable similarity between targets and backgrounds in terms of color, texture, and shape. This causes existing methods to either lose edge details (such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Jianlin Sun , Xiaolin Fang , Juwei Guan , Dongdong Gui , Teqi Wang , Tongxin Zhu

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

Glass-like objects such as windows, bottles, and mirrors exist widely in the real world. Sensing these objects has many applications, including robot navigation and grasping. However, this task is very challenging due to the arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Hao He , Xiangtai Li , Guangliang Cheng , Jianping Shi , Yunhai Tong , Gaofeng Meng , Véronique Prinet , Lubin Weng

Camouflaged object detection (COD) and salient object detection (SOD) are two distinct yet closely-related computer vision tasks widely studied during the past decades. Though sharing the same purpose of segmenting an image into binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Chao Hao , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Jun Xu , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

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

In this paper, we propose deformable deep convolutional neural networks for generic object detection. This new deep learning object detection framework has innovations in multiple aspects. In the proposed new deep architecture, a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang , Xingyu Zeng , Shi Qiu , Ping Luo , Yonglong Tian , Hongsheng Li , Shuo Yang , Zhe Wang , Chen-Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Due to object detection's close relationship with video analysis and image understanding, it has attracted much research attention in recent years. Traditional object detection methods are built on handcrafted features and shallow trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Zhong-Qiu Zhao , Peng Zheng , Shou-tao Xu , Xindong Wu

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to identify the objects that seamlessly blend into the surrounding backgrounds. Due to the intrinsic similarity between the camouflaged objects and the background region, it is extremely challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Siyuan Yao , Hao Sun , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Xiao Wang , Xiaochun Cao

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

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to distinguish hidden objects embedded in an environment highly similar to the object. Conventional video-based COD (VCOD) methods explicitly extract motion cues or employ complex deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xinyu Wang , Hong-Shuo Chen , Zhiruo Zhou , Suya You , Azad M. Madni , C. -C. Jay Kuo

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

Predominant methods for image-based drone detection frequently rely on employing generic object detection algorithms like YOLOv5. While proficient in identifying drones against homogeneous backgrounds, these algorithms often struggle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Stefan Jäger , Tobias Koch

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) stands as a significant challenge in computer vision, dedicated to identifying and segmenting objects visually highly integrated with their backgrounds. Current mainstream methods have made progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Kuan Wang , Yanjun Qin , Mengge Lu , Liejun Wang , Xiaoming Tao

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

Detecting camouflaged objects in underwater environments is crucial for marine ecological research and resource exploration. However, existing methods face two key challenges: underwater image degradation, including low contrast and color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Xinxin Huang , Han Sun , Junmin Cai , Ningzhong Liu , Huiyu Zhou

Underwater Camouflaged Object Detection (UCOD) aims to identify objects that blend seamlessly into underwater environments. This task is critically important to marine ecology. However, it remains largely underexplored and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Xinxin Huang , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu , Huiyu Zhou , Yinan Yao

Camouflaged object detection is a challenging task that aims to identify objects having similar texture to the surroundings. This paper presents to amplify the subtle texture difference between camouflaged objects and the background for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jingjing Ren , Xiaowei Hu , Lei Zhu , Xuemiao Xu , Yangyang Xu , Weiming Wang , Zijun Deng , Pheng-Ann Heng

To fully exploit depth cues in Camouflaged Object Detection (COD), we present DGA-Net, a specialized framework that adapts the Segment Anything Model (SAM) via a novel ``depth prompting" paradigm. Distinguished from existing approaches that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yuetong Li , Qing Zhang , Yilin Zhao , Gongyang Li , Zeming Liu