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Current state-of-the-art methods for object detection rely on annotated bounding boxes of large data sets for training. However, obtaining such annotations is expensive and can require up to hundreds of hours of manual labor. This poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Hannah Kniesel , Leon Sick , Tristan Payer , Tim Bergner , Kavitha Shaga Devan , Clarissa Read , Paul Walther , Timo Ropinski

Salient Object Detection (SOD) remains an essential yet underexplored task in the era of large-scale vision models. Although foundation models like SAM exhibit strong generalization, their potential for SOD is not fully realized, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Morteza Moradi , Mohammad Moradi , Simone Palazzo , Ali Borji , Concetto Spampinato

Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD), leveraging unlabeled data to boost object detectors, has become a hot topic recently. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving oriented objects common in aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Dingkang Liang , Wei Hua , Chunsheng Shi , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiang Bai

3D weakly supervised semantic segmentation (3D WSSS) aims to achieve semantic segmentation by leveraging sparse or low-cost annotated data, significantly reducing reliance on dense point-wise annotations. Previous works mainly employ class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaoxu Xu , Xuexun Liu , Jinlong Li , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Nicu Sebe , Xu Wang

Recent salient object detection (SOD) models predominantly rely on heavyweight backbones, incurring substantial computational cost and hindering their practical application in various real-world settings, particularly on edge devices. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yu-Huan Wu , Wei Liu , Zi-Xuan Zhu , Zizhou Wang , Yong Liu , Liangli Zhen

Recently, deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance on the task of object detection and recognition. The reason for this success is mainly grounded in the availability of large scale, fully annotated datasets, but the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Christian Bartz , Haojin Yang , Joseph Bethge , Christoph Meinel

Weakly-supervised object detection (WOD) is a challenging problems in computer vision. The key problem is to simultaneously infer the exact object locations in the training images and train the object detectors, given only the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Dingwen Zhang , Deyu Meng , Long Zhao , Junwei Han

A critical object detection task is finetuning an existing model to detect novel objects, but the standard workflow requires bounding box annotations which are time-consuming and expensive to collect. Weakly supervised object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Tyler LaBonte , Yale Song , Xin Wang , Vibhav Vineet , Neel Joshi

Existing camouflaged object detection (COD) methods rely heavily on large-scale datasets with pixel-wise annotations. However, due to the ambiguous boundary, annotating camouflage objects pixel-wisely is very time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ruozhen He , Qihua Dong , Jiaying Lin , Rynson W. H. Lau

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

We propose a semi-supervised approach for contemporary object detectors following the teacher-student dual model framework. Our method is featured with 1) the exponential moving averaging strategy to update the teacher from the student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yihe Tang , Weifeng Chen , Yijun Luo , Yuting Zhang

Weak supervision learning on classification labels has demonstrated high performance in various tasks, while a few pixel-level fine annotations are also affordable. Naturally a question comes to us that whether the combination of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jiahui Li , Wen Chen , Xiaodi Huang , Zhiqiang Hu , Qi Duan , Hongsheng Li , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Shaoting Zhang

Though deep learning techniques have made great progress in salient object detection recently, the predicted saliency maps still suffer from incomplete predictions due to the internal complexity of objects and inaccurate boundaries caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Runmin Wu , Mengyang Feng , Wenlong Guan , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Errui Ding

The main purpose of RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) is how to better integrate and utilize cross-modal fusion information. In this paper, we explore these issues from a new perspective. We integrate the features of different modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Youwei Pang , Lihe Zhang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Huchuan Lu

Salient object detection (SOD), a foundational task in computer vision, has advanced from single-modal to multi-modal paradigms to enhance generalization. However, most existing SOD methods assume low-noise visual conditions, overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Quan Chen , Xiaokai Yang , Tingyu Wang , Rongfeng Lu , Xichun Sheng , Yaoqi Sun , Chenggang Yan

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

Salient object detection exemplifies data-bounded tasks where expensive pixel-precise annotations force separate model training for related subtasks like DIS and HR-SOD. We present a method that dramatically improves generalization through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Orest Kupyn , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Christian Rupprecht

This paper presents a holistic approach to saliency-guided visual attention modeling (SVAM) for use by autonomous underwater robots. Our proposed model, named SVAM-Net, integrates deep visual features at various scales and semantics for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Md Jahidul Islam , Ruobing Wang , Junaed Sattar

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

Due to abundance of data from multiple modalities, cross-modal retrieval tasks with image-text, audio-image, etc. are gaining increasing importance. Of the different approaches proposed, supervised methods usually give significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Devraj Mandal , Pramod Rao , Soma Biswas