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This paper researches the unexplored task-point cloud salient object detection (SOD). Differing from SOD for images, we find the attention shift of point clouds may provoke saliency conflict, i.e., an object paradoxically belongs to salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Songlin Fan , Wei Gao , Ge Li

Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD), aiming to explore unlabeled data for boosting object detectors, has become an active task in recent years. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving multi-oriented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Wei Hua , Dingkang Liang , Jingyu Li , Xiaolong Liu , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiang Bai

We present the first systematic study on concealed object detection (COD), which aims to identify objects that are "perfectly" embedded in their background. The high intrinsic similarities between the concealed objects and their background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Deng-Ping Fan , Ge-Peng Ji , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ling Shao

Object detection has greatly improved over the past decade thanks to advances in deep learning and large-scale datasets. However, detecting objects reflected in surfaces remains an underexplored area. Reflective surfaces are ubiquitous in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yiquan Wu , Zhongtian Wang , You Wu , Ling Huang , Hui Zhou , Shuiwang Li

Small object detection (SOD) has been a longstanding yet challenging task for decades, with numerous datasets and algorithms being developed. However, they mainly focus on either visible or thermal modality, while visible-thermal (RGBT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Xinyi Ying , Chao Xiao , Ruojing Li , Xu He , Boyang Li , Xu Cao , Zhaoxu Li , Yingqian Wang , Mingyuan Hu , Qingyu Xu , Zaiping Lin , Miao Li , Shilin Zhou , Wei An , Weidong Sheng , Li Liu

In the past decade, object detection has achieved significant progress in natural images but not in aerial images, due to the massive variations in the scale and orientation of objects caused by the bird's-eye view of aerial images. More…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jian Ding , Nan Xue , Gui-Song Xia , Xiang Bai , Wen Yang , Micheal Ying Yang , Serge Belongie , Jiebo Luo , Mihai Datcu , Marcello Pelillo , Liangpei Zhang

Fixation prediction (FP) in panoramic contents has been widely investigated along with the booming trend of virtual reality (VR) applications. However, another issue within the field of visual saliency, salient object detection (SOD), has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Yi Zhang , Lu Zhang , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

Compared with the conventional hand-crafted approaches, the deep learning based methods have achieved tremendous performance improvements by training exquisitely crafted fancy networks over large-scale training sets. However, do we really…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

In recent years, deep learning technology has been maturely applied in the field of object detection, and most algorithms tend to be supervised learning. However, a large amount of labeled data requires high costs of human resources, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yanyang Wang , Zhaoxiang Liu , Shiguo Lian

This paper investigates a fundamental yet underexplored issue in Salient Object Detection (SOD): the size-invariant property for evaluation protocols, particularly in scenarios when multiple salient objects of significantly different sizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Shilong Bao , Qianqian Xu , Feiran Li , Boyu Han , Zhiyong Yang , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection in computer vision is a crucial research area, with related benchmarks playing a vital role in assessing the generalizability of models and their applicability in real-world scenarios. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Alberto Bacchin , Davide Allegro , Stefano Ghidoni , Emanuele Menegatti

Salient object detection is inherently a subjective problem, as observers with different priors may perceive different objects as salient. However, existing methods predominantly formulate it as an objective prediction task with a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Fuxi Zhang , Yifan Wang , Hengrun Zhao , Zhuohan Sun , Changxing Xia , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu , Yangrui Shao , Chen Yang , Long Teng

Salient object detection (SOD), which aims to find the most important region of interest and segment the relevant object/item in that area, is an important yet challenging vision task. This problem is inspired by the fact that human seems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Pingping Zhang , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

Object detection has achieved a huge breakthrough with deep neural networks and massive annotated data. However, current detection methods cannot be directly transferred to the scenario where the annotated data is scarce due to the severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Qihan Huang , Haofei Zhang , Mengqi Xue , Jie Song , Mingli Song

Image-based salient object detection (SOD) has been extensively explored in the past decades. However, SOD on 360$^\circ$ omnidirectional images is less studied owing to the lack of datasets with pixel-level annotations. Toward this end,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jia Li , Jinming Su , Changqun Xia , Yonghong Tian

Salient Object Detection (SOD) domain using RGB-D data has lately emerged with some current models' adequately precise results. However, they have restrained generalization abilities and intensive computational complexity. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Tanveer Hussain , Saeed Anwar , Amin Ullah , Khan Muhammad , Sung Wook Baik

Recent research advances in salient object detection (SOD) could largely be attributed to ever-stronger multi-scale feature representation empowered by the deep learning technologies. The existing SOD deep models extract multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Hong Qin , Aimin Hao

Small object detection (SOD) in anti-UAV task is a challenging problem due to the small size of UAVs and complex backgrounds. Traditional frame-based cameras struggle to detect small objects in complex environments due to their low frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Nuo Chen , Chao Xiao , Yimian Dai , Shiman He , Miao Li , Wei An

For many years, multi-object tracking benchmarks have focused on a handful of categories. Motivated primarily by surveillance and self-driving applications, these datasets provide tracks for people, vehicles, and animals, ignoring the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Achal Dave , Tarasha Khurana , Pavel Tokmakov , Cordelia Schmid , Deva Ramanan

In this paper, we present an Improved Data Augmentation (IDA) technique focused on Salient Object Detection (SOD). Standard data augmentation techniques proposed in the literature, such as image cropping, rotation, flipping, and resizing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Daniel V. Ruiz , Bruno A. Krinski , Eduardo Todt