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With the goal of identifying pixel-wise salient object regions from each input image, salient object detection (SOD) has been receiving great attention in recent years. One kind of mainstream SOD methods is formed by a bottom-up feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Chaowei Fang , Haibin Tian , Dingwen Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han , Junwei Han

Salient object detection (SOD) is a crucial and preliminary task for many computer vision applications, which have made progress with deep CNNs. Most of the existing methods mainly rely on the RGB information to distinguish the salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Jiawei Zhao , Yifan Zhao , Jia Li , Xiaowu Chen

In this paper, we introduce Divide-and-Conquer into the salient object detection (SOD) task to enable the model to learn prior knowledge that is for predicting the saliency map. We design a novel network, Divide-and-Conquer Network (DC-Net)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Jiayi Zhu , Xuebin Qin , Abdulmotaleb Elsaddik

Salient Object Detection (SOD) methods can locate objects that stand out in an image, assign higher values to their pixels in a saliency map, and binarize the map outputting a predicted segmentation mask. A recent tendency is to investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Gilson Junior Soares , Matheus Abrantes Cerqueira , Jancarlo F. Gomes , Laurent Najman , Silvio Jamil F. Guimarães , Alexandre Xavier Falcão

To detect salient objects accurately, existing methods usually design complex backbone network architectures to learn and fuse powerful features. However, the saliency inference module that performs saliency prediction from the fused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Zun Li , Congyan Lang , Yunpeng Chen , Junhao Liew , Jiashi Feng

Salient object detection (SOD) remains an important task in computer vision, with applications ranging from image segmentation to autonomous driving. Fully convolutional network (FCN)-based methods have made remarkable progress in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Kassaw Abraham Mulat , Zhengyong Feng , Tegegne Solomon Eshetie , Ahmed Endris Hasen

In the domain of computer vision, multi-scale feature extraction is vital for tasks such as salient object detection. However, achieving this capability in lightweight networks remains challenging due to the trade-off between efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yunpeng Shi , Lei Chen , Xiaolu Shen , Yanju Guo

Most existing salient object detection methods mostly use U-Net or feature pyramid structure, which simply aggregates feature maps of different scales, ignoring the uniqueness and interdependence of them and their respective contributions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Yao Yuan , Pan Gao , XiaoYang Tan

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 plays an important role in many downstream tasks. However, complex real-world scenes with varying scales and numbers of salient objects still pose a challenge. In this paper, we directly address the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Bowen Deng , Andrew P. French , Michael P. Pound

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

The majority of current salient object detection (SOD) models are focused on designing a series of decoders based on fully convolutional networks (FCNs) or Transformer architectures and integrating them in a skillful manner. These models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Ailing Pan , Chao Dai , Chen Pan , Dongping Zhang , Yunchao Xu

Fully-supervised salient object detection (SOD) methods have made great progress, but such methods often rely on a large number of pixel-level annotations, which are time-consuming and labour-intensive. In this paper, we focus on a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Runmin Cong , Qi Qin , Chen Zhang , Qiuping Jiang , Shiqi Wang , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

In this paper, we propose a novel edge preserving and multi-scale contextual neural network for salient object detection. The proposed framework is aiming to address two limits of the existing CNN based methods. First, region-based CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Xiang Wang , Huimin Ma , Xiaozhi Chen , Shaodi You

Recently, relying on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), many methods for salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (ORSI-SOD) are proposed. However, most methods ignore the huge parameters and computational cost brought…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Gongyang Li , Zhi Liu , Xinpeng Zhang , Weisi Lin

Salient Object Detection (SOD) domain using RGB-D data has lately emerged with some current models' adequately precise results. However, they have restrained generalization abilities and intensive computational complexity. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Tanveer Hussain , Saeed Anwar , Amin Ullah , Khan Muhammad , Sung Wook Baik

Salient object detection (SOD), which aims to find the most important region of interest and segment the relevant object/item in that area, is an important yet challenging vision task. This problem is inspired by the fact that human seems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Pingping Zhang , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

Salient object detection, 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 challenging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

Recent progress on salient object detection (SOD) mainly benefits from multi-scale learning, where the high-level and low-level features collaborate in locating salient objects and discovering fine details, respectively. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yu-Huan Wu , Yun Liu , Le Zhang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Ren

Salient object detection (SOD) in remote sensing images faces significant challenges due to large variations in object sizes, the computational cost of self-attention mechanisms, and the limitations of CNN-based extractors in capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Bin Wan , Runmin Cong , Xiaofei Zhou , Hao Fang , Yaoqi Sun , Sam Kwong