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Recently, general salient object detection (SOD) has made great progress with the rapid development of deep neural networks. However, task-aware SOD has hardly been studied due to the lack of task-specific datasets. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Jinming Su , Changqun Xia , Jia Li

Substantial efforts have been devoted more recently to presenting various methods for object detection in optical remote sensing images. However, the current survey of datasets and deep learning based methods for object detection in optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Ke Li , Gang Wan , Gong Cheng , Liqiu Meng , Junwei Han

Exploring to what humans pay attention in dynamic panoramic scenes is useful for many fundamental applications, including augmented reality (AR) in retail, AR-powered recruitment, and visual language navigation. With this goal in mind, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Yi Zhang

Object detection is a critical field in computer vision focusing on accurately identifying and locating specific objects in images or videos. Traditional methods for object detection rely on large labeled training datasets for each object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Vishal Chudasama , Hiran Sarkar , Pankaj Wasnik , Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Jayateja Kalla

Recent salient object detection (SOD) methods aim to improve performance in four key directions: semantic enhancement, boundary refinement, auxiliary task supervision, and multi-modal fusion. In pursuit of continuous gains, these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yu Zhang , Haoan Ping , Yuchen Li , Zhenshan Bing , Fuchun Sun , Alois Knoll

Weakly-Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) and Localization (WSOL), i.e., detecting multiple and single instances with bounding boxes in an image using image-level labels, are long-standing and challenging tasks in the CV community. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Feifei Shao , Long Chen , Jian Shao , Wei Ji , Shaoning Xiao , Lu Ye , Yueting Zhuang , Jun Xiao

Developing a new Salient Object Detection (SOD) model involves selecting an ImageNet pre-trained backbone and creating novel feature refinement modules to use backbone features. However, adding new components to a pre-trained backbone needs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Rohit Venkata Sai Dulam , Chandra Kambhamettu

This paper addresses the challenge of deploying salient object detection (SOD) on resource-constrained devices with real-time performance. While recent advances in deep neural networks have improved SOD, existing top-leading models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhuo Su , Li Liu , Matthias Müller , Jiehua Zhang , Diana Wofk , Ming-Ming Cheng , Matti Pietikäinen

Salient Object Detection (SOD) is crucial in computer vision, yet RGB-based methods face limitations in challenging scenes, such as small objects and similar color features. Hyperspectral images provide a promising solution for more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yuhao Qiu , Shuyan Bai , Tingfa Xu , Peifu Liu , Haolin Qin , Jianan Li

Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment the most conspicuous objects in an image or video. As an important pre-processing step, it has many potential applications in multimedia and vision tasks. With the advance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xinhao Deng , Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu

Learning in data-scarce settings has recently gained significant attention in the research community. Semi-supervised object detection(SSOD) aims to improve detection performance by leveraging a large number of unlabeled images alongside a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Chaoxin Wang , Bharaneeshwar Balasubramaniyam , Anurag Sangem , Nicolais Guevara , Doina Caragea

Recent deep learning-based video salient object detection (VSOD) has achieved some breakthrough, but these methods rely on expensive annotated videos with pixel-wise annotations, weak annotations, or part of the pixel-wise annotations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Binwei Xu , Haoran Liang , Wentian Ni , Weihua Gong , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

Small object detection remains a challenging problem in the field of object detection. To address this challenge, we propose an enhanced YOLOv8-based model, SOD-YOLO. This model integrates an ASF mechanism in the neck to enhance multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Peijun Wang , Jinhua Zhao

Decomposing images of document pages into high-level semantic regions (e.g., figures, tables, paragraphs), document object detection (DOD) is fundamental for downstream tasks like intelligent document editing and understanding. DOD remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Kai Li , Curtis Wigington , Chris Tensmeyer , Handong Zhao , Nikolaos Barmpalios , Vlad I. Morariu , Varun Manjunatha , Tong Sun , Yun Fu

Most existing CNN-based salient object detection methods can identify local segmentation details like hair and animal fur, but often misinterpret the real saliency due to the lack of global contextual information caused by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Bo Xu , Guanze Liu , Han Huang , Cheng Lu , Yandong Guo

While deep learning-based general object detection has made significant strides in recent years, the effectiveness and efficiency of small object detection remain unsatisfactory. This is primarily attributed not only to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zile Huang , Chong Zhang , Mingyu Jin , Fangyu Wu , Chengzhi Liu , Xiaobo Jin

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

We extensively compare, qualitatively and quantitatively, 40 state-of-the-art models (28 salient object detection, 10 fixation prediction, 1 objectness, and 1 baseline) over 6 challenging datasets for the purpose of benchmarking salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ali Borji , Ming-Ming Cheng , Huaizu Jiang , Jia Li

Fully supervised salient object detection (SOD) methods have made considerable progress in performance, yet these models rely heavily on expensive pixel-wise labels. Recently, to achieve a trade-off between labeling burden and performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Binwei Xu , Haoran Liang , Weihua Gong , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

There are many limitations applying object detection algorithm on various environments. Especially detecting small objects is still challenging because they have low resolution and limited information. We propose an object detection method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jeong-Seon Lim , Marcella Astrid , Hyun-Jin Yoon , Seung-Ik Lee