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Existing RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) approaches concentrate on the cross-modal fusion between the RGB stream and the depth stream. They do not deeply explore the effect of the depth map itself. In this work, we design a single…

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Semantic segmentation plays an important role in widespread applications such as autonomous driving and robotic sensing. Traditional methods mostly use RGB images which are heavily affected by lighting conditions, \eg, darkness. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ping Li , Junjie Chen , Binbin Lin , Xianghua Xu

Existing CNNs-Based RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) networks are all required to be pretrained on the ImageNet to learn the hierarchy features which helps provide a good initialization. However, the collection and annotation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Xiaoqi Zhao , Youwei Pang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu , Xiang Ruan

RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) aims to detect the prominent regions by jointly modeling RGB and depth information. Most RGB-D SOD methods apply the same type of backbones and fusion modules to identically learn the multimodality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Kang Yi , Jing Xu , Xiao Jin , Fu Guo , Yan-Feng Wu

Salient object detection(SOD) aims at locating the most significant object within a given image. In recent years, great progress has been made in applying SOD on many vision tasks. The depth map could provide additional spatial prior and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Guangyu Ren , Yanchu Xie , Tianhong Dai , Tania Stathaki

The rapid development of deep learning has significantly improved salient object detection (SOD) combining both RGB and thermal (RGB-T) images. However, existing Transformer-based RGB-T SOD models with quadratic complexity are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Pengfei Lyu , Xiaosheng Yu , Pak-Hei Yeung , Chengdong Wu , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Robust perception at night remains challenging for thermal-infrared detection: low contrast and weak high-frequency cues lead to duplicate, overlapping boxes, missed small objects, and class confusion. Prior remedies either translate TIR to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 SiWoo Kim , JhongHyun An

Recent deep learning based salient object detection methods which utilize both saliency and boundary features have achieved remarkable performance. However, most of them ignore the complementarity between saliency features and boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Fangting Lin , Chao Yang , Huizhou Li , Bin Jiang

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

Salient Object Detection (SOD) plays a crucial role in many computer vision applications, requiring accurate localization and precise boundary delineation of salient regions. In this work, we present a novel framework that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abhinav Sagar

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

Most existing RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) methods focus on the foreground region when utilizing the depth images. However, the background also provides important information in traditional SOD methods for promising performance. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Zhao Zhang , Zheng Lin , Jun Xu , Wenda Jin , Shao-Ping Lu , Deng-Ping Fan

Existing RGB-T salient object detection methods predominantly rely on manually aligned and annotated datasets, struggling to handle real-world scenarios with raw, unaligned RGB-T image pairs. In practical applications, due to significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Lupiao Hu , Fasheng Wang , Fangmei Chen , Fuming Sun , Haojie 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

Toward desirable saliency prediction, the types and numbers of inputs for a salient object detection (SOD) algorithm may dynamically change in many real-life applications. However, existing SOD algorithms are mainly designed or trained for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Nianchang Huang , Yang Yang , Ruida Xi , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han , Jin Huang

Most of existing RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) methods follow the CNN-based paradigm, which is unable to model long-range dependencies across space and modalities due to the natural locality of CNNs. Here we propose the Hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Hao Chen , Feihong Shen

Depth information has been proved beneficial in RGB-D salient object detection (SOD). However, depth maps obtained often suffer from low quality and inaccuracy. Most existing RGB-D SOD models have no cross-modal interactions or only have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Wenbo Zhang , Yao Jiang , Keren Fu , Qijun Zhao

Salient Object Detection (SOD) is a popular and important topic aimed at precise detection and segmentation of the interesting regions in the images. We integrate the linguistic information into the vision-based U-Structure networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Yunqing Bao , Hang Dai , Abdulmotaleb Elsaddik

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

Multispectral object detection, utilizing both visible (RGB) and thermal infrared (T) modals, has garnered significant attention for its robust performance across diverse weather and lighting conditions. However, effectively exploiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jinzhong Wang , Xuetao Tian , Shun Dai , Tao Zhuo , Haorui Zeng , Hongjuan Liu , Jiaqi Liu , Xiuwei Zhang , Yanning Zhang