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We propose a novel unsupervised game-theoretic salient object detection algorithm that does not require labeled training data. First, saliency detection problem is formulated as a non-cooperative game, hereinafter referred to as Saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Yu Zeng , Huchuan Lu , Ali Borji , Mengyang Feng

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

In this work, we propose an efficient and effective approach for unconstrained salient object detection in images using deep convolutional neural networks. Instead of generating thousands of candidate bounding boxes and refining them, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Mahyar Najibi , Fan Yang , Qiaosong Wang , Robinson Piramuthu

Deep neural network based methods have made a significant breakthrough in salient object detection. However, they are typically limited to input images with low resolutions ($400\times400$ pixels or less). Little effort has been made to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Yi Zeng , Pingping Zhang , Jianming Zhang , Zhe Lin , Huchuan Lu

Aiming at discovering and locating most distinctive objects from visual scenes, salient object detection (SOD) plays an essential role in various computer vision systems. Coming to the era of high resolution, SOD methods are facing new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Lv Tang , Bo Li , Shouhong Ding , Mofei Song

Recently, the philosophy of visual saliency and attention has started to gain popularity in the robotics community. Therefore, this paper aims to mimic this mechanism in SLAM framework by using saliency prediction model. Comparing with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Ke Wang , Sai Ma , Junlan Chen , Jianbo Lu

Segmenting salient objects in an image is an important vision task with ubiquitous applications. The problem becomes more challenging in the presence of a cluttered and textured background, low resolution and/or low contrast images. Even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Anuj Pahuja , Avishek Majumder , Anirban Chakraborty , R. Venkatesh Babu

This paper presents an approach for top-down saliency detection guided by visual classification tasks. We first learn how to compute visual saliency when a specific visual task has to be accomplished, as opposed to most state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Francesca Murabito , Concetto Spampinato , Simone Palazzo , Konstantin Pogorelov , Michael Riegler

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

Salient object detection has become an important task in many image processing applications. The existing approaches exploit background prior and contrast prior to attain state of the art results. In this paper, instead of using background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Sai Srivatsa R , R. Venkatesh Babu

Object proposals greatly benefit object detection task in recent state-of-the-art works. However, the existing object proposals usually have low localization accuracy at high intersection over union threshold. To address it, we apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Shuhan Chen , Jindong Li , Xuelong Hu , Ping Zhou

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

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

Almost all previous works on saliency detection have been dedicated to conventional images, however, with the outbreak of panoramic images due to the rapid development of VR or AR technology, it is becoming more challenging, meanwhile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Chunbiao Zhu , Kan Huang , Ge Li

Though deep learning techniques have made great progress in salient object detection recently, the predicted saliency maps still suffer from incomplete predictions due to the internal complexity of objects and inaccurate boundaries caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Runmin Wu , Mengyang Feng , Wenlong Guan , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Errui Ding

Fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) have shown outstanding performance in many computer vision tasks including salient object detection. However, there still remains two issues needed to be addressed in deep learning based saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Chunbiao Zhu , Xing Cai , Kan Huang , Thomas H Li , Ge Li

Salient object detection (SOD), which aims to identify and locate the most salient pixels or regions in images, has been attracting more and more interest due to its various real-world applications. However, this vision task is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

Although multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel in high-level vision-language reasoning, they lack inherent awareness of visual saliency, making it difficult to identify key visual elements. To bridge this gap, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Long Li , Shuichen Ji , Ziyang Luo , Zhihui Li , Dingwen Zhang , Junwei Han , Nian Liu

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

In this paper, we propose an efficient and discriminative model for salient object detection. Our method is carried out in a stepwise mechanism based on both divergence background and compact foreground cues. In order to effectively enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Chenxing Xia , Hanling Zhang , Keqin Li