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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Xiaoqi Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Youwei Pang , Huchuan Lu , Lei Zhang

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

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

The real human attention is an interactive activity between our visual system and our brain, using both low-level visual stimulus and high-level semantic information. Previous image salient object detection (SOD) works conduct their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

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

Deep-learning based salient object detection methods achieve great progress. However, the variable scale and unknown category of salient objects are great challenges all the time. These are closely related to the utilization of multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

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

Existing salient object detection methods often adopt deeper and wider networks for better performance, resulting in heavy computational burden and slow inference speed. This inspires us to rethink saliency detection to achieve a favorable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jia Li , Shengye Qiao , Zhirui Zhao , Chenxi Xie , Xiaowu Chen , Changqun Xia

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

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

In the current salient object detection network, the most popular method is using U-shape structure. However, the massive number of parameters leads to more consumption of computing and storage resources which are not feasible to deploy on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Bin Zhang , Yang Wu , Xiaojing Zhang , Ming Ma

RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) demonstrates its superiority on detecting in complex environments due to the additional depth information introduced in the data. Inevitably, an independent stream is introduced to extract features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Guangyu Ren , Yinxiao Yu , Hengyan Liu , Tania Stathaki

Camouflaged object detection (COD) and salient object detection (SOD) are two distinct yet closely-related computer vision tasks widely studied during the past decades. Though sharing the same purpose of segmenting an image into binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Chao Hao , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Jun Xu , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Salient object detection models often demand a considerable amount of computation cost to make precise prediction for each pixel, making them hardly applicable on low-power devices. In this paper, we aim to relieve the contradiction between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Shang-Hua Gao , Yong-Qiang Tan , Ming-Ming Cheng , Chengze Lu , Yunpeng Chen , Shuicheng Yan

Recently deep convolutional neural networks have achieved significant success in salient object detection. However, existing state-of-the-art methods require high-end GPUs to achieve real-time performance, which makes them hard to adapt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Haofeng Li , Guanbin Li , Binbin Yang , Guanqi Chen , Liang Lin , Yizhou Yu

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

Typically, a salient object detection (SOD) model faces opposite requirements in processing object interiors and boundaries. The features of interiors should be invariant to strong appearance change so as to pop-out the salient object as a…

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

Salient object detection (SOD) aims to determine the most visually attractive objects in an image. With the development of virtual reality technology, 360{\deg} omnidirectional image has been widely used, but the SOD task in 360{\deg}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Runmin Cong , Ke Huang , Jianjun Lei , Yao Zhao , Qingming Huang , Sam Kwong

Salient Object Detection (SOD) has traditionally relied on feature refinement modules that utilize the features of an ImageNet pre-trained backbone. However, this approach limits the possibility of pre-training the entire network because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Rohit Venkata Sai Dulam , Chandra Kambhamettu

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