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In recent years, deep learning technology has been maturely applied in the field of object detection, and most algorithms tend to be supervised learning. However, a large amount of labeled data requires high costs of human resources, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yanyang Wang , Zhaoxiang Liu , Shiguo Lian

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

Image-based salient object detection (SOD) has been extensively studied in the past decades. However, video-based SOD is much less explored since there lack large-scale video datasets within which salient objects are unambiguously defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Jia Li , Changqun Xia , Xiaowu Chen

Existing deep neural network based salient object detection (SOD) methods mainly focus on pursuing high network accuracy. However, those methods overlook the gap between network accuracy and prediction confidence, known as the confidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Xin Yu , Mehrtash Harandi , Nick Barnes , Richard Hartley

There has been profound progress in visual saliency thanks to the deep learning architectures, however, there still exist three major challenges that hinder the detection performance for scenes with complex compositions, multiple salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Fatih Porikli , Mingyi He

Fully supervised salient object detection (SOD) methods have made considerable progress in performance, yet these models rely heavily on expensive pixel-wise labels. Recently, to achieve a trade-off between labeling burden and performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Binwei Xu , Haoran Liang , Weihua Gong , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

Image saliency detection has recently witnessed rapid progress due to deep convolutional neural networks. However, none of the existing methods is able to identify object instances in the detected salient regions. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Guanbin Li , Yuan Xie , Liang Lin , Yizhou Yu

Recent Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SS-OD) methods are mainly based on self-training, i.e., generating hard pseudo-labels by a teacher model on unlabeled data as supervisory signals. Although they achieved certain success, the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Qiushan Guo , Yao Mu , Jianyu Chen , Tianqi Wang , Yizhou Yu , Ping Luo

Significant performance improvement has been achieved for fully-supervised video salient object detection with the pixel-wise labeled training datasets, which are time-consuming and expensive to obtain. To relieve the burden of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Wangbo Zhao , Jing Zhang , Long Li , Nick Barnes , Nian Liu , Junwei Han

Our paper introduces a novel two-stage self-supervised approach for detecting co-occurring salient objects (CoSOD) in image groups without requiring segmentation annotations. Unlike existing unsupervised methods that rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Souradeep Chakraborty , Dimitris Samaras

The U-shape structure has shown its advantage in salient object detection for efficiently combining multi-scale features. However, most existing U-shape based methods focused on improving the bottom-up and top-down pathways while ignoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Jiang-Jiang Liu , Zhi-Ang Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng

Recent developments for Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD) have shown the promise of leveraging unlabeled data to improve an object detector. However, thus far these methods have assumed that the unlabeled data does not contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Yen-Cheng Liu , Chih-Yao Ma , Xiaoliang Dai , Junjiao Tian , Peter Vajda , Zijian He , Zsolt Kira

Most existing CNN-based salient object detection methods can identify local segmentation details like hair and animal fur, but often misinterpret the real saliency due to the lack of global contextual information caused by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Bo Xu , Guanze Liu , Han Huang , Cheng Lu , Yandong Guo

Unsupervised object discovery, the task of identifying and localizing objects in images without human-annotated labels, remains a significant challenge and a growing focus in computer vision. In this work, we introduce a novel model, DADO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Federico Gonzalez , Estefania Talavera , Petia Radeva

The impressive advancements in semi-supervised learning have driven researchers to explore its potential in object detection tasks within the field of computer vision. Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD) leverages a combination of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Tahira Shehzadi , Ifza , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Underwater salient object detection (USOD) plays a vital role in marine vision tasks but remains fundamentally challenging due to severe visual degradation, such as selective absorption and medium scattering. Conventional pipelines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Laibin Chang , Shaodong Wang , Yunke Wang , Xu Zhang , Kui Jiang , Chang Xu , Bo Du

We present a simple yet effective progressive self-guided loss function to facilitate deep learning-based salient object detection (SOD) in images. The saliency maps produced by the most relevant works still suffer from incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sheng Yang , Weisi Lin , Guosheng Lin , Qiuping Jiang , Zichuan Liu

In recent years, deep network-based methods have continuously refreshed state-of-the-art performance on Salient Object Detection (SOD) task. However, the performance discrepancy caused by different implementation details may conceal the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Huajun Zhou , Yang Lin , Lingxiao Yang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie

Semantic segmentation aims to classify every pixel of an input image. Considering the difficulty of acquiring dense labels, researchers have recently been resorting to weak labels to alleviate the annotation burden of segmentation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Yazhou Yao , Tao Chen , Guosen Xie , Chuanyi Zhang , Fumin Shen , Qi Wu , Zhenmin Tang , Jian Zhang

Underwater salient object detection (USOD) has attracted increasing attention for underwater visual scene understanding and vision-guided robotic applications. However, existing USOD methods still struggle with underwater image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Lin Hong , Chenhui Wang , Linan Deng , Yuning Cui , Yu Zhang , Xin Wang , Bojian Zhang , Wenqi Ren , Xingchen Yang , Fumin Zhang