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Effective fusion of different types of features is the key to salient object detection. The majority of existing network structure design is based on the subjective experience of scholars and the process of feature fusion does not consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Jinchao Zhu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Xian Fang , Feng Dong , Li Yuehua , Junnan Liu

Most salient object detection approaches use U-Net or feature pyramid networks (FPN) as their basic structures. These methods ignore two key problems when the encoder exchanges information with the decoder: one is the lack of interference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xiaoqi Zhao , Youwei Pang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu , Lei Zhang

Video salient object detection aims at discovering the most visually distinctive objects in a video. How to effectively take object motion into consideration during video salient object detection is a critical issue. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Haofeng Li , Guanqi Chen , Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

Existing salient object detection methods often adopt deeper and wider networks for better performance, resulting in heavy computational burden and slow inference speed. This inspires us to rethink saliency detection to achieve a favorable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jia Li , Shengye Qiao , Zhirui Zhao , Chenxi Xie , Xiaowu Chen , Changqun Xia

The real human attention is an interactive activity between our visual system and our brain, using both low-level visual stimulus and high-level semantic information. Previous image salient object detection (SOD) works conduct their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

Salient object detection is a fundamental problem and has been received a great deal of attentions in computer vision. Recently deep learning model became a powerful tool for image feature extraction. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Fen Xiao , Wenzheng Deng , Liangchan Peng , Chunhong Cao , Kai Hu , Xieping Gao

Recent salient object detection (SOD) models predominantly rely on heavyweight backbones, incurring substantial computational cost and hindering their practical application in various real-world settings, particularly on edge devices. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yu-Huan Wu , Wei Liu , Zi-Xuan Zhu , Zizhou Wang , Yong Liu , Liangli Zhen

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

Developing a new Salient Object Detection (SOD) model involves selecting an ImageNet pre-trained backbone and creating novel feature refinement modules to use backbone features. However, adding new components to a pre-trained backbone needs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Rohit Venkata Sai Dulam , Chandra Kambhamettu

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

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

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

Most of existing salient object detection models have achieved great progress by aggregating multi-level features extracted from convolutional neural networks. However, because of the different receptive fields of different convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Jun Wei , Shuhui Wang , Qingming Huang

3D object detection in point cloud data remains a challenging task due to the sparsity and lack of global structure inherent in the input. In this work, we propose a novel Multi-Scale Attention (MSA) mechanism integrated into the 3DETR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mustaqeem Khan , Aidana Nurakhmetova , Wail Gueaieb , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

In the past few years, numerous deep learning methods have been proposed to address the task of segmenting salient objects from RGB images. However, these approaches depending on single modality fail to achieve the state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yi Zhang , Lu Zhang , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

This paper researches the unexplored task-point cloud salient object detection (SOD). Differing from SOD for images, we find the attention shift of point clouds may provoke saliency conflict, i.e., an object paradoxically belongs to salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Songlin Fan , Wei Gao , Ge Li

Benefiting from color independence, illumination invariance and location discrimination attributed by the depth map, it can provide important supplemental information for extracting salient objects in complex environments. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Xiaoqi Zhao , Youwei Pang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Due to the extreme complexity of scale and shape as well as the uncertainty of the predicted location, salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (RSI-SOD) is a very difficult task. The existing SOD methods can satisfy the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yuhan Lin , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu , Yetong Bian , Jun Cen , Huiyu Zhou

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

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