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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

This paper investigates a fundamental yet underexplored issue in Salient Object Detection (SOD): the size-invariant property for evaluation protocols, particularly in scenarios when multiple salient objects of significantly different sizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Shilong Bao , Qianqian Xu , Feiran Li , Boyu Han , Zhiyong Yang , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yu Wen , Shuyong Gao , Shuping Zhang , Miao Huang , Lili Tao , Han Yang , Haozhe Xing , Lihe Zhang , Boxue Hou

Co-salient object detection targets at detecting co-existed salient objects among a group of images. Recently, a generalist model for segmenting everything in context, called SegGPT, is gaining public attention. In view of its breakthrough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yi Liu , Shoukun Xu , Dingwen Zhang , Jungong Han

Although current salient object detection (SOD) works have achieved significant progress, they are limited when it comes to the integrity of the predicted salient regions. We define the concept of integrity at both a micro and macro level.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Mingchen Zhuge , Deng-Ping Fan , Nian Liu , Dingwen Zhang , Dong Xu , Ling Shao

Deep learning based salient object detection has recently achieved great success with its performance greatly outperforms any other unsupervised methods. However, annotating per-pixel saliency masks is a tedious and inefficient procedure.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Guanbin Li , Yuan Xie , Liang Lin

Camouflaged object detection (COD), segmenting objects that are elegantly blended into their surroundings, is a valuable yet challenging task. Existing deep-learning methods often fall into the difficulty of accurately identifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yujia Sun , Shuo Wang , Chenglizhao Chen , Tian-Zhu Xiang

Small object detection (SOD) is a critical yet challenging task in computer vision, with applications like spanning surveillance, autonomous systems, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Unlike larger objects, small objects contain limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mahya Nikouei , Bita Baroutian , Shahabedin Nabavi , Fateme Taraghi , Atefe Aghaei , Ayoob Sajedi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

Modern object detectors have achieved impressive progress under the close-set setup. However, open-set object detection (OSOD) remains challenging since objects of unknown categories are often misclassified to existing known classes. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Jiaming Han , Yuqiang Ren , Jian Ding , Xingjia Pan , Ke Yan , Gui-Song Xia

Pixel-wise prediction with deep neural network has become an effective paradigm for salient object detection (SOD) and achieved remarkable performance. However, very few SOD models are robust against adversarial attacks which are visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 He Wang , Lin Wan , He Tang

With the rise of deep convolutional neural networks, object detection has achieved prominent advances in past years. However, such prosperity could not camouflage the unsatisfactory situation of Small Object Detection (SOD), one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Gong Cheng , Xiang Yuan , Xiwen Yao , Kebing Yan , Qinghua Zeng , Xingxing Xie , Junwei Han

Depth images and thermal images contain the spatial geometry information and surface temperature information, which can act as complementary information for the RGB modality. However, the quality of the depth and thermal images is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Liuxin Bao , Xiaofei Zhou , Xiankai Lu , Yaoqi Sun , Haibing Yin , Zhenghui Hu , Jiyong Zhang , Chenggang Yan

Salient object detection is a problem that has been considered in detail and \textcolor{black}{many solutions have been proposed}. In this paper, we argue that work to date has addressed a problem that is relatively ill-posed. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Mahmoud Kalash , Md Amirul Islam , Neil D. B. Bruce

Big model has emerged as a new research paradigm that can be applied to various down-stream tasks with only minor effort for domain adaption. Correspondingly, this study tackles Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) leveraging the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Guoying Liang , Su Yang

Salient object detection (SOD) aims to identify the most attractive objects within an image. Depending on the type of data being detected, SOD can be categorized into various forms, including RGB, RGB-D (Depth), RGB-T (Thermal) and light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xingzhao Jia , Zhongqiu Zhao , Changlei Dongye , Zhao Zhang

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

In this paper, we present a novel end-to-end group collaborative learning network, termed GCoNet+, which can effectively and efficiently (250 fps) identify co-salient objects in natural scenes. The proposed GCoNet+ achieves the new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Peng Zheng , Huazhu Fu , Deng-Ping Fan , Qi Fan , Jie Qin , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Luc Van Gool

Many works have been done on salient object detection using supervised or unsupervised approaches on colour images. Recently, a few studies demonstrated that efficient salient object detection can also be implemented by using spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Nevrez Imamoglu , Yu Oishi , Xiaoqiang Zhang , Guanqun Ding , Yuming Fang , Toru Kouyama , Ryosuke Nakamura

Video salient object detection (VSOD) aims to locate and segment the most attractive object by exploiting both spatial cues and temporal cues hidden in video sequences. However, spatial and temporal cues are often unreliable in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Peijia Chen , Jianhuang Lai , Guangcong Wang , Huajun Zhou

Building reliable object detectors that can detect out-of-distribution (OOD) objects is critical yet underexplored. One of the key challenges is that models lack supervision signals from unknown data, producing overconfident predictions on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Xuefeng Du , Xin Wang , Gabriel Gozum , Yixuan Li