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Salient objects attract human attention and usually stand out clearly from their surroundings. In contrast, camouflaged objects share similar colors or textures with the environment. In this case, salient objects are typically…

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Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to segment objects that blend seamlessly into complex backgrounds, with growing interest in exploiting additional visual modalities to enhance robustness through complementary information. However,…

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Current zero-shot Camouflaged Object Segmentation methods typically employ a two-stage pipeline (discover-then-segment): using MLLMs to obtain visual prompts, followed by SAM segmentation. However, relying solely on MLLMs for camouflaged…

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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…

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Confidence-aware learning is proven as an effective solution to prevent networks becoming overconfident. We present a confidence-aware camouflaged object detection framework using dynamic supervision to produce both accurate camouflage map…

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Transformers have rapidly gained popularity in computer vision, especially in the field of object recognition and detection. Upon examining the outcomes of state-of-the-art object detection methods, we noticed that transformers consistently…

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Existing edge-aware camouflaged object detection (COD) methods normally output the edge prediction in the early stage. However, edges are important and fundamental factors in the following segmentation task. Due to the high visual…

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Camouflaged objects are seamlessly blended in with their surroundings, which brings a challenging detection task in computer vision. Optimizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) for camouflaged object detection (COD) tends to activate…

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Camouflaged object detection (COD) remains a challenging task in computer vision. Existing methods often resort to additional branches for edge supervision, incurring substantial computational costs. To address this, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yang Hu , Jinxia Zhang , Kaihua Zhang , Yin Yuan , Jiale Huang , Zechao Zhan , Xing Wang

The core challenge in Camouflage Object Detection (COD) lies in the indistinguishable similarity between targets and backgrounds in terms of color, texture, and shape. This causes existing methods to either lose edge details (such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Jianlin Sun , Xiaolin Fang , Juwei Guan , Dongdong Gui , Teqi Wang , Tongxin Zhu

Camouflaged object detection (COD) is a challenging task due to the low boundary contrast between the object and its surroundings. In addition, the appearance of camouflaged objects varies significantly, e.g., object size and shape,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Yujia Sun , Geng Chen , Tao Zhou , Yi Zhang , Nian Liu

Salient object detection (SOD) and camouflaged object detection (COD) are related yet distinct binary mapping tasks. These tasks involve multiple modalities, sharing commonalities and unique cues. Existing research often employs intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Ziyang Luo , Nian Liu , Wangbo Zhao , Xuguang Yang , Dingwen Zhang , Deng-Ping Fan , Fahad Khan , Junwei Han

Super Resolution (SR) and Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) are two hot topics in computer vision with various joint applications. For instance, low-resolution surveillance images can be successively processed by super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Juan Wen , Shupeng Cheng , Peng Xu , Bowen Zhou , Radu Timofte , Weiyan Hou , Luc Van Gool

Referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD) aims to identify hidden objects by incorporating reference information such as images and text descriptions. Previous research has transformed reference images with salient objects into…

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Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment camouflaged objects hiding in the environment, which is challenging due to the similar appearance of camouflaged objects and their surroundings. Research in biology suggests depth can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Mochu Xiang , Jing Zhang , Yunqiu Lv , Aixuan Li , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai

Existing state-of-the-art salient object detection networks rely on aggregating multi-level features of pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Compared to high-level features, low-level features contribute less to performance but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Zhe Wu , Li Su , Qingming Huang

While the human visual system employs distinct mechanisms to perceive salient and camouflaged objects, existing models struggle to disentangle these tasks. Specifically, salient object detection (SOD) models frequently misclassify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhangjun Zhou , Yiping Li , Chunlin Zhong , Jianuo Huang , Jialun Pei , Hua Li , He Tang

We consider the problem of referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD), a new task that aims to segment specified camouflaged objects based on a small set of referring images with salient target objects. We first assemble a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuying Zhang , Bowen Yin , Zheng Lin , Qibin Hou , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng

Salient object detection (SOD), which aims to identify and locate the most salient pixels or regions in images, has been attracting more and more interest due to its various real-world applications. However, this vision task is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision tasks. However, their potential in rotation-sensitive scenarios has not been fully explored, and this limitation may be inherently attributed to the lack of…

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