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Existing RGB-D SOD methods mainly rely on a symmetric two-stream CNN-based network to extract RGB and depth channel features separately. However, there are two problems with the symmetric conventional network structure: first, the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Chang Liu , Gang Yang , Shuo Wang , Hangxu Wang , Yunhua Zhang , Yutao Wang

Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment the most conspicuous objects in an image or video. As an important pre-processing step, it has many potential applications in multimedia and vision tasks. With the advance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xinhao Deng , Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu

Optical Remote Sensing Image Salient Object Detection (ORSI-SOD) remains challenging due to complex backgrounds, low contrast, irregular object shapes, and large variations in object scale. Existing discriminative methods directly regress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Haojing Chen , Zhihang Liu , Yutong Li , Tao Tan , Haoyu Bian , Qiuju Ma

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

This paper addresses the challenge of deploying salient object detection (SOD) on resource-constrained devices with real-time performance. While recent advances in deep neural networks have improved SOD, existing top-leading models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhuo Su , Li Liu , Matthias Müller , Jiehua Zhang , Diana Wofk , Ming-Ming Cheng , Matti Pietikäinen

Current methods aggregate multi-level features or introduce edge and skeleton to get more refined saliency maps. However, little attention is paid to how to obtain the complete salient object in cluttered background, where the targets are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Ge Zhu , Jinbao Li , Yahong Guo

Salient object detection is a prevalent computer vision task that has applications ranging from abnormality detection to abnormality processing. Context modelling is an important criterion in the domain of saliency detection. A global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Kitty Varghese , Sauradip Nag

Recently, general salient object detection (SOD) has made great progress with the rapid development of deep neural networks. However, task-aware SOD has hardly been studied due to the lack of task-specific datasets. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Jinming Su , Changqun Xia , Jia Li

Remote sensing images captured from aerial perspectives often exhibit significant scale variations and complex backgrounds, posing challenges for salient object detection (SOD). Existing methods typically extract multi-level features at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Bin Wan , Runmin Cong , Xiaofei Zhou , Hao Fang , Chengtao Lv , Sam Kwong

Fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) have shown their advantages in the salient object detection task. However, most existing FCNs-based methods still suffer from coarse object boundaries. In this paper, to solve this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Jia-Xing Zhao , Jiangjiang Liu , Den-Ping Fan , Yang Cao , Jufeng Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng

Existing salient object detection (SOD) methods mainly rely on U-shaped convolution neural networks (CNNs) with skip connections to combine the global contexts and local spatial details that are crucial for locating salient objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yu Qiu , Yun Liu , Le Zhang , Jing Xu

Attention mechanisms are widely used in salient object detection models based on deep learning, which can effectively promote the extraction and utilization of useful information by neural networks. However, most of the existing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Shiping Zhu , Lanyun Zhu

Recent progress on salient object detection mainly aims at exploiting how to effectively integrate convolutional side-output features in convolutional neural networks (CNN). Based on this, most of the existing state-of-the-art saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yun Liu , Yu Qiu , Le Zhang , JiaWang Bian , Guang-Yu Nie , Ming-Ming Cheng

Salient object detection (SOD) is a task that involves identifying and segmenting the most visually prominent object in an image. Existing solutions can accomplish this use a multi-scale feature fusion mechanism to detect the global context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Yongwoo Lee , Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Sangyoun Lee

A key problem in salient object detection is how to effectively model the semantic properties of salient objects in a data-driven manner. In this paper, we propose a multi-task deep saliency model based on a fully convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Xi Li , Liming Zhao , Lina Wei , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang , Haibin Ling , Jingdong Wang

Deep convolutional neural network significantly boosted the capability of salient object detection in handling large variations of scenes and object appearances. However, convolution operations seek to generate strong responses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Sanping Zhou , Jimuyang Zhang , Jinjun Wang , Fei Wang , Dong Huang

Most existing salient object detection (SOD) models are difficult to apply due to the complex and huge model structures. Although some lightweight models are proposed, the accuracy is barely satisfactory. In this paper, we design a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jin Zhang , Qiuwei Liang , Yanjiao Shi

Salient object detection is inherently a subjective problem, as observers with different priors may perceive different objects as salient. However, existing methods predominantly formulate it as an objective prediction task with a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Fuxi Zhang , Yifan Wang , Hengrun Zhao , Zhuohan Sun , Changxing Xia , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu , Yangrui Shao , Chen Yang , Long Teng

Video salient object detection (VSOD) is an important task in many vision applications. Reliable VSOD requires to simultaneously exploit the information from both the spatial domain and the temporal domain. Most of the existing algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Yi Tang , Yuanman Li , Guoliang Xing

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based salient object detection methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance and outperform those unsupervised methods with a wide margin. In this paper, we propose to integrate deep and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Jing Zhang , Bo Li , Yuchao Dai , Fatih Porikli , Mingyi He