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Small object detection (SOD) is a critical yet challenging task in computer vision, with applications like spanning surveillance, autonomous systems, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Unlike larger objects, small objects contain limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mahya Nikouei , Bita Baroutian , Shahabedin Nabavi , Fateme Taraghi , Atefe Aghaei , Ayoob Sajedi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

Small object detection (SOD) in optical images and videos is a challenging problem that even state-of-the-art generic object detection methods fail to accurately localize and identify such objects. Typically, small objects appear in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Aref Miri Rekavandi , Lian Xu , Farid Boussaid , Abd-Krim Seghouane , Stephen Hoefs , Mohammed Bennamoun

Computer vision-based deep learning object detection algorithms have been developed sufficiently powerful to support the ability to recognize various objects. Although there are currently general datasets for object detection, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Rui Duan , Hui Deng , Mao Tian , Yichuan Deng , Jiarui Lin

In recent years, significant advancements have been made in deep learning-based object detection algorithms, revolutionizing basic computer vision tasks, notably in object detection, tracking, and segmentation. This paper delves into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Kailas PS , Selvakumaran R , Palani Murugan , Ramesh Kumar , Malaya Kumar Biswal M

Salient object detection (SOD) is a long-standing research topic in computer vision and has drawn an increasing amount of research interest in the past decade. This paper provides the first comprehensive review and benchmark for light field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Keren Fu , Yao Jiang , Ge-Peng Ji , Tao Zhou , Qijun Zhao , Deng-Ping Fan

Transformers have rapidly gained popularity in computer vision, especially in the field of object recognition and detection. Upon examining the outcomes of state-of-the-art object detection methods, we noticed that transformers consistently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Aref Miri Rekavandi , Shima Rashidi , Farid Boussaid , Stephen Hoefs , Emre Akbas , Mohammed bennamoun

As an essential problem in computer vision, salient object detection (SOD) has attracted an increasing amount of research attention over the years. Recent advances in SOD are predominantly led by deep learning-based solutions (named deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Wenguan Wang , Qiuxia Lai , Huazhu Fu , Jianbing Shen , Haibin Ling , Ruigang Yang

Small Object Detection (SOD) is an important machine vision topic because (i) a variety of real-world applications require object detection for distant objects and (ii) SOD is a challenging task due to the noisy, blurred, and…

In recent years, deep network-based methods have continuously refreshed state-of-the-art performance on Salient Object Detection (SOD) task. However, the performance discrepancy caused by different implementation details may conceal the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Huajun Zhou , Yang Lin , Lingxiao Yang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie

Aiming at facilitating a real-world, ever-evolving and scalable autonomous driving system, we present a large-scale dataset for standardizing the evaluation of different self-supervised and semi-supervised approaches by learning from raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Jianhua Han , Xiwen Liang , Hang Xu , Kai Chen , Lanqing Hong , Jiageng Mao , Chaoqiang Ye , Wei Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Xiaodan Liang , Chunjing Xu

Salient object detection (SOD), which simulates the human visual perception system to locate the most attractive object(s) in a scene, has been widely applied to various computer vision tasks. Now, with the advent of depth sensors, depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Tao Zhou , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Contemporary deep-learning object detection methods for autonomous driving usually assume prefixed categories of common traffic participants, such as pedestrians and cars. Most existing detectors are unable to detect uncommon objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Kaican Li , Kai Chen , Haoyu Wang , Lanqing Hong , Chaoqiang Ye , Jianhua Han , Yukuai Chen , Wei Zhang , Chunjing Xu , Dit-Yan Yeung , Xiaodan Liang , Zhenguo Li , Hang Xu

In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive study on the co-salient object detection (CoSOD) problem for images. CoSOD is an emerging and rapidly growing extension of salient object detection (SOD), which aims to detect the co-occurring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Deng-Ping Fan , Tengpeng Li , Zheng Lin , Ge-Peng Ji , Dingwen Zhang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Huazhu Fu , Jianbing Shen

Small object detection (SOD) remains challenging due to extremely limited pixels and ambiguous object boundaries. These characteristics lead to challenging annotation, limited availability of large-scale high-quality datasets, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haoran Zhu , Wen Yang , Guangyou Yang , Chang Xu , Ruixiang Zhang , Fang Xu , Haijian Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

We provide a comprehensive evaluation of salient object detection (SOD) models. Our analysis identifies a serious design bias of existing SOD datasets which assumes that each image contains at least one clearly outstanding salient object in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Shang-Hua Gao , Qibin Hou , Ali Borji

We present the RSSOD-Bench dataset for salient object detection (SOD) in optical remote sensing imagery. While SOD has achieved success in natural scene images with deep learning, research in SOD for remote sensing imagery (RSSOD) is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zhitong Xiong , Yanfeng Liu , Qi Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

This paper identifies and addresses a serious design bias of existing salient object detection (SOD) datasets, which unrealistically assume that each image should contain at least one clear and uncluttered salient object. This design bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Deng-Ping Fan , Jing Zhang , Gang Xu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ling Shao

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

Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment prominent regions within a scene. Traditional models rely on manually annotated pseudo labels with precise pixel-level accuracy, which is time-consuming. We developed a low-cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Miaoyang He , Shuyong Gao , Tsui Qin Mok , Weifeng Ge , Wengqiang Zhang

Image-based salient object detection (SOD) has been extensively studied in the past decades. However, video-based SOD is much less explored since there lack large-scale video datasets within which salient objects are unambiguously defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Jia Li , Changqun Xia , Xiaowu Chen
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