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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

Recent salient object detection (SOD) methods aim to improve performance in four key directions: semantic enhancement, boundary refinement, auxiliary task supervision, and multi-modal fusion. In pursuit of continuous gains, these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yu Zhang , Haoan Ping , Yuchen Li , Zhenshan Bing , Fuchun Sun , Alois Knoll

Salient Object Detection (SOD) with deep learning often requires substantial computational resources and large annotated datasets, making it impractical for resource-constrained applications. Lightweight models address computational demands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Leonardo M. Joao , Jancarlo F. Gomes , Silvio J. F. Guimaraes , Ewa Kijak , Alexandre X. Falcao

Deep convolutional neural networks have become a key element in the recent breakthrough of salient object detection. However, existing CNN-based methods are based on either patch-wise (region-wise) training and inference or fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

Recent research advances in salient object detection (SOD) could largely be attributed to ever-stronger multi-scale feature representation empowered by the deep learning technologies. The existing SOD deep models extract multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Hong Qin , Aimin Hao

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 (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

Despite the powerful feature extraction capability of Convolutional Neural Networks, there are still some challenges in saliency detection. In this paper, we focus on two aspects of challenges: i) Since salient objects appear in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Mehrdad Noori , Sina Mohammadi , Sina Ghofrani Majelan , Ali Bahri , Mohammad Havaei

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

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

Benefit from the quick development of deep learning techniques, salient object detection has achieved remarkable progresses recently. However, there still exists following two major challenges that hinder its application in embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Shuhan Chen , Xiuli Tan , Ben Wang , Xuelong Hu

Existing RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) approaches concentrate on the cross-modal fusion between the RGB stream and the depth stream. They do not deeply explore the effect of the depth map itself. In this work, we design a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Xiaoqi Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Youwei Pang , Huchuan Lu , Lei Zhang

Beneficial from Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (FCNs), saliency detection methods have achieved promising results. However, it is still challenging to learn effective features for detecting salient objects in complicated scenarios, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Sina Mohammadi , Mehrdad Noori , Ali Bahri , Sina Ghofrani Majelan , Mohammad Havaei

Despite the remarkable advances in visual saliency analysis for natural scene images (NSIs), salient object detection (SOD) for optical remote sensing images (RSIs) still remains an open and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Qijian Zhang , Runmin Cong , Chongyi Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yuming Fang , Xiaochun Cao , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

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

Salient Object Detection (SOD) remains an essential yet underexplored task in the era of large-scale vision models. Although foundation models like SAM exhibit strong generalization, their potential for SOD is not fully realized, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Morteza Moradi , Mohammad Moradi , Simone Palazzo , Ali Borji , Concetto Spampinato

As an essential problem in computer vision, salient object detection (SOD) has attracted an increasing amount of research attention over the years. Recent advances in SOD are predominantly led by deep learning-based solutions (named deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Wenguan Wang , Qiuxia Lai , Huazhu Fu , Jianbing Shen , Haibin Ling , Ruigang Yang

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

While we enjoy the richness and informativeness of multimodal data, it also introduces interference and redundancy of information. To achieve optimal domain interpretation with limited resources, we propose CSDNet, a lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xiaotong Yu , Ruihan Xie , Zhihe Zhao , Chang-Wen Chen

Salient object detection (SOD) remains an important task in computer vision, with applications ranging from image segmentation to autonomous driving. Fully convolutional network (FCN)-based methods have made remarkable progress in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Kassaw Abraham Mulat , Zhengyong Feng , Tegegne Solomon Eshetie , Ahmed Endris Hasen