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Camouflaged object detection (COD) presents a persistent challenge in accurately identifying objects that seamlessly blend into their surroundings. However, most existing COD models overlook the fact that visual systems operate within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-12 Xinran Liua , Lin Qia , Yuxuan Songa , Qi Wen

We consider the problem of referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD), a new task that aims to segment specified camouflaged objects based on a small set of referring images with salient target objects. We first assemble a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuying Zhang , Bowen Yin , Zheng Lin , Qibin Hou , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng

Camouflaged Object Detection is challenging due to the high degree of similarity between camouflaged objects and their surrounding backgrounds. Current COD methods mainly rely on edge extraction in the spatial domain and local pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Song Yu , Yang Hu , Haokang Ding , Zhifang Liao , Yucheng Song

Camouflaged objects are seamlessly blended in with their surroundings, which brings a challenging detection task in computer vision. Optimizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) for camouflaged object detection (COD) tends to activate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Wei Sun , Chengao Liu , Linyan Zhang , Yu Li , Pengxu Wei , Chang Liu , Jialing Zou , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to detect objects with similar patterns (e.g., texture, intensity, colour, etc) to their surroundings, and recently has attracted growing research interest. As camouflaged objects often present very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Ge-Peng Ji , Lei Zhu , Mingchen Zhuge , Keren Fu

This paper introduces DGNet, a novel deep framework that exploits object gradient supervision for camouflaged object detection (COD). It decouples the task into two connected branches, i.e., a context and a texture encoder. The essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ge-Peng Ji , Deng-Ping Fan , Yu-Cheng Chou , Dengxin Dai , Alexander Liniger , Luc Van Gool

Referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD) aims to identify hidden objects by incorporating reference information such as images and text descriptions. Previous research has transformed reference images with salient objects into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yu Wen , Shuyong Gao , Shuping Zhang , Miao Huang , Lili Tao , Han Yang , Haozhe Xing , Lihe Zhang , Boxue Hou

Camouflaged object detection (COD) is a challenging task due to the low boundary contrast between the object and its surroundings. In addition, the appearance of camouflaged objects varies significantly, e.g., object size and shape,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Yujia Sun , Geng Chen , Tao Zhou , Yi Zhang , Nian Liu

Preys in the wild evolve to be camouflaged to avoid being recognized by predators. In this way, camouflage acts as a key defence mechanism across species that is critical to survival. To detect and segment the whole scope of a camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yunqiu Lv , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Aixuan Li , Nick Barnes , Deng-Ping Fan

Camouflaged object detection is a challenging task that aims to identify objects that are highly similar to their background. Due to the powerful noise-to-image denoising capability of denoising diffusion models, in this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zhennan Chen , Rongrong Gao , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Fan Lin

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) demands models to expeditiously and accurately distinguish objects which conceal themselves seamlessly in the environment. Owing to the subtle differences and ambiguous boundaries, COD is not only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Huafeng Chen , Dian Shao , Guangqian Guo , Shan Gao

Camouflage object detection (COD) poses a significant challenge due to the high resemblance between camouflaged objects and their surroundings. Although current deep learning methods have made significant progress in detecting camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yuchen Dong , Heng Zhou , Chengyang Li , Junjie Xie , Yongqiang Xie , Zhongbo Li

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to detect/segment camouflaged objects embedded in the environment, which has attracted increasing attention over the past decades. Although several COD methods have been developed, they still suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Tao Zhou , Yi Zhou , Chen Gong , Jian Yang , Yu Zhang

Camouflaged object detection is an emerging and challenging computer vision task that requires identifying and segmenting objects that blend seamlessly into their environments due to high similarity in color, texture, and size. This task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Leena Alghamdi , Muhammad Usman , Hafeez Anwar , Abdul Bais , Saeed Anwar

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment camouflaged objects which exhibit very similar patterns with the surrounding environment. Recent research works have shown that enhancing the feature representation via the frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Shizhou Zhang , Dexuan Kong , Yinghui Xing , Yue Lu , Lingyan Ran , Guoqiang Liang , Hexu Wang , Yanning Zhang

Camouflaged object detection and segmentation is a new and challenging research topic in computer vision. There is a serious issue of lacking data on concealed objects such as camouflaged animals in natural scenes. In this paper, we address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Thanh-Danh Nguyen , Anh-Khoa Nguyen Vu , Nhat-Duy Nguyen , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Thanh Duc Ngo , Thanh-Toan Do , Minh-Triet Tran , Tam V. Nguyen

Camouflaged object detection identifies objects that blend seamlessly with their surroundings through similar colors, textures, and patterns. This task challenges both traditional segmentation methods and modern foundation models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Baber Jan , Aiman H. El-Maleh , Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui , Abdul Bais , Saeed Anwar

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to segment objects that are highly integrated with the background in terms of color, texture, and structure, making it a highly challenging task in computer vision. Although existing methods introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Min Zhang

Camouflaged object detection segments objects with intrinsic similarity and edge disruption. Current detection methods rely on accumulated complex components. Each approach adds components such as boundary modules, attention mechanisms, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Baber Jan , Saeed Anwar , Aiman H. El-Maleh , Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui , Abdul Bais

Camouflaged object detection (COD) and camouflaged instance segmentation (CIS) aim to recognize and segment objects that are blended into their surroundings, respectively. While several deep neural network models have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Minh-Quan Le , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le , Tam V. Nguyen , Thanh-Toan Do