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Salient object detection (SOD), a foundational task in computer vision, has advanced from single-modal to multi-modal paradigms to enhance generalization. However, most existing SOD methods assume low-noise visual conditions, overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Quan Chen , Xiaokai Yang , Tingyu Wang , Rongfeng Lu , Xichun Sheng , Yaoqi Sun , Chenggang Yan

Co-salient object detection, with the target of detecting co-existed salient objects among a group of images, is gaining popularity. Recent works use the attention mechanism or extra information to aggregate common co-salient features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Siyue Yu , Jimin Xiao , Bingfeng Zhang , Eng Gee Lim

Open world image segmentation aims to achieve precise segmentation and semantic understanding of targets within images by addressing the infinitely open set of object categories encountered in the real world. However, traditional closed-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Danyang Li , Tianhao Wu , Bin Li , Zhenyuan Chen , Yang Zhang , Yuxuan Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiang Li

Deep Learning-based Unsupervised Salient Object Detection (USOD) mainly relies on the noisy saliency pseudo labels that have been generated from traditional handcraft methods or pre-trained networks. To cope with the noisy labels problem, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Huajun Zhou , Bo Qiao , Lingxiao Yang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie

Compared with the conventional hand-crafted approaches, the deep learning based methods have achieved tremendous performance improvements by training exquisitely crafted fancy networks over large-scale training sets. However, do we really…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

Existing single-modal and multi-modal salient object detection (SOD) methods focus on designing specific architectures tailored for their respective tasks. However, developing completely different models for different tasks leads to labor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Kunpeng Wang , Chenglong Li , Zhengzheng Tu , Zhengyi Liu , Bin Luo

Salient object detection or salient region detection models, diverging from fixation prediction models, have traditionally been dealing with locating and segmenting the most salient object or region in a scene. While the notion of most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Ali Borji

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

Detecting and segmenting salient objects from natural scenes, often referred to as salient object detection, has attracted great interest in computer vision. While many models have been proposed and several applications have emerged, a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Ali Borji , Ming-Ming Cheng , Qibin Hou , Huaizu Jiang , Jia Li

Salient object detection has increasingly become a popular topic in cognitive and computational sciences, including computer vision and artificial intelligence research. In this paper, we propose integrating \textit{semantic priors} into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Tam V. Nguyen , Luoqi Liu

UNet-based methods have shown outstanding performance in salient object detection (SOD), but are problematic in two aspects. 1) Indiscriminately integrating the encoder feature, which contains spatial information for multiple objects, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Chaewon Park , Minhyeok Lee , MyeongAh Cho , Sangyoun Lee

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

Open-set object detection (OSOD), a task involving the detection of unknown objects while accurately detecting known objects, has recently gained attention. However, we identify a fundamental issue with the problem formulation employed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yusuke Hosoya , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

The main purpose of RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) is how to better integrate and utilize cross-modal fusion information. In this paper, we explore these issues from a new perspective. We integrate the features of different modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Youwei Pang , Lihe Zhang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Huchuan Lu

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a novel and challenging computer vision task that enables object detection with the ability to detect unknown objects. Existing methods typically estimate the object likelihood with an additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yulin He , Wei Chen , Yusong Tan , Siqi Wang

Video salient object detection aims to find the most visually distinctive objects in a video. To explore the temporal dependencies, existing methods usually resort to recurrent neural networks or optical flow. However, these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Yi-Wen Chen , Xiaojie Jin , Xiaohui Shen , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Salient Object Detection (SOD) methods can locate objects that stand out in an image, assign higher values to their pixels in a saliency map, and binarize the map outputting a predicted segmentation mask. A recent tendency is to investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Gilson Junior Soares , Matheus Abrantes Cerqueira , Jancarlo F. Gomes , Laurent Najman , Silvio Jamil F. Guimarães , Alexandre Xavier Falcão

To fully understand the 3D context of a single image, a visual system must be able to segment both the visible and occluded regions of objects, while discerning their occlusion order. Ideally, the system should be able to handle any object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Jiayang Ao , Qiuhong Ke , Krista A. Ehinger

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

Despite recent improvements in computer vision, artificial visual systems' design is still daunting since an explanation of visual computing algorithms remains elusive. Salient object detection is one problem that is still open due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Gustavo Olague , Jose Armando Menendez-Clavijo , Matthieu Olague , Arturo Ocampo , Gerardo Ibarra-Vazquez , Rocio Ochoa , Roberto Pineda