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Spotting camouflaged objects that are visually assimilated into the background is tricky for both object detection algorithms and humans who are usually confused or cheated by the perfectly intrinsic similarities between the foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Xiaobin Hu , Shuo Wang , Xuebin Qin , Hang Dai , Wenqi Ren , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Ling Shao

Camouflaged Object Segmentation (COS) remains challenging because camouflaged objects exhibit only subtle visual differences from their backgrounds and single-modality RGB methods provide limited cues, leading researchers to explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Chengyu Fang , Chunming He , Longxiang Tang , Yuelin Zhang , Chenyang Zhu , Yuqi Shen , Chubin Chen , Guoxia Xu , Xiu Li

In this paper, we propose a novel architecture that iteratively discovers and segments out the objects of a scene based on the image reconstruction quality. Different from other approaches, our model uses an explicit localization module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Weitang Liu , Lifeng Wei , James Sharpnack , John D. Owens

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) is a challenging task in computer vision due to the high similarity between camouflaged objects and their surroundings. Existing COD methods primarily employ semantic segmentation, which suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Zhongxi Chen , Ke Sun , Xianming Lin , Rongrong Ji

The camouflaged object detection (COD) task aims to identify and segment objects that blend into the background due to their similar color or texture. Despite the inherent difficulties of the task, COD has gained considerable attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Chaewon Park , Dogyoon Lee , Jungho Lee , Sangyoun Lee

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to segment objects that are highly integrated with the background in terms of color, texture, and structure, making it a highly challenging task in computer vision. Although existing methods introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Min Zhang

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to generate a fine-grained segmentation map of camouflaged objects hidden in their background. Due to the hidden nature of camouflaged objects, it is essential for the decoder to be tailored to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Seung Woo Ko , Joopyo Hong , Suyoung Kim , Seungjai Bang , Sungzoon Cho , Nojun Kwak , Hyung-Sin Kim , Joonseok Lee

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) refers to the task of identifying and segmenting objects that blend seamlessly into their surroundings, posing a significant challenge for computer vision systems. In recent years, COD has garnered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Fengyang Xiao , Sujie Hu , Yuqi Shen , Chengyu Fang , Jinfa Huang , Chunming He , Longxiang Tang , Ziyun Yang , Xiu Li

Modern two-stage object detectors generally require excessively large models for their detection heads to achieve high accuracy. To address this problem, we propose that the model parameters of two-stage detection heads can be condensed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Zhe Chen , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Camouflage is a key defence mechanism across species that is critical to survival. Common strategies for camouflage include background matching, imitating the color and pattern of the environment, and disruptive coloration, disguising body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yunqiu Lv , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Aixuan Li , Bowen Liu , Nick Barnes , Deng-Ping Fan

Detecting objects seamlessly blended into their surroundings represents a complex task for both human cognitive capabilities and advanced artificial intelligence algorithms. Currently, the majority of methodologies for detecting camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jianwei Zhao , Xin Li , Fan Yang , Qiang Zhai , Ao Luo , Zicheng Jiao , Hong Cheng

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yilong Yang , Jianxin Tian , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao

Existing semantic segmentation approaches either aim to improve the object's inner consistency by modeling the global context, or refine objects detail along their boundaries by multi-scale feature fusion. In this paper, a new paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Li Zhang , Guangliang Cheng , Jianping Shi , Zhouchen Lin , Shaohua Tan , Yunhai Tong

Camouflaged Object Detection is challenging due to the high degree of similarity between camouflaged objects and their surrounding backgrounds. Current COD methods mainly rely on edge extraction in the spatial domain and local pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Song Yu , Yang Hu , Haokang Ding , Zhifang Liao , Yucheng Song

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to identify the objects that conceal themselves in natural scenes. Accurate COD suffers from a number of challenges associated with low boundary contrast and the large variation of object appearances,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Geng Chen , Si-Jie Liu , Yu-Jia Sun , Ge-Peng Ji , Ya-Feng Wu , Tao Zhou

Recent research about camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment highly concealed objects hidden in complex surroundings. The tiny, fuzzy camouflaged objects result in visually indistinguishable properties. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Dehua Zheng , Xiaochen Zheng , Laurence T. Yang , Yuan Gao , Chenlu Zhu , Yiheng Ruan

How to identify and segment camouflaged objects from the background is challenging. Inspired by the multi-head self-attention in Transformers, we present a simple masked separable attention (MSA) for camouflaged object detection. We first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Bowen Yin , Xuying Zhang , Qibin Hou , Bo-Yuan Sun , Deng-Ping Fan , Luc Van Gool

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment objects visually embedded in their surroundings, which is a very challenging task due to the high similarity between the objects and the background. To address it, most methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhennan Chen , Xuying Zhang , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Ying Tai

We present an unsupervised learning framework for decomposing images into layers of automatically discovered object models. Contrary to recent approaches that model image layers with autoencoder networks, we represent them as explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Tom Monnier , Elliot Vincent , Jean Ponce , Mathieu Aubry