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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…

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Although deep salient object detection (SOD) has achieved remarkable progress, deep SOD models are extremely data-hungry, requiring large-scale pixel-wise annotations to deliver such promising results. In this paper, we propose a novel yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zhenyu Wu , Lin Wang , Wei Wang , Tengfei Shi , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Shuo Li

Salient object detection (SOD) aims to segment visually prominent regions in images and serves as a foundational task for various computer vision applications. We posit that SOD can now reach near-supervised accuracy without a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Muhammad Umer Ramzan , Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , Noman Ali , Usman Ali , Wei Xiang

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

One of the fundamental properties of a salient object region is its contrast with the immediate context. The problem is that numerous object regions exist which potentially can all be salient. One way to prevent an exhaustive search over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Aymen Azaza , Joost van de Weijer , Ali Douik , Marc Masana

Recent progress on salient object detection mainly aims at exploiting how to effectively integrate convolutional side-output features in convolutional neural networks (CNN). Based on this, most of the existing state-of-the-art saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yun Liu , Yu Qiu , Le Zhang , JiaWang Bian , Guang-Yu Nie , Ming-Ming Cheng

Recent progress on salient object detection (SOD) mainly benefits from multi-scale learning, where the high-level and low-level features collaborate in locating salient objects and discovering fine details, respectively. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yu-Huan Wu , Yun Liu , Le Zhang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Ren

The past few years have witnessed the immense success of object detection, while current excellent detectors struggle on tackling size-limited instances. Concretely, the well-known challenge of low overlaps between the priors and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Xiang Yuan , Gong Cheng , Kebing Yan , Qinghua Zeng , Junwei Han

Image salient object detection (SOD) is an active research topic in computer vision and multimedia area. Fusing complementary information of RGB and depth has been demonstrated to be effective for image salient object detection which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Bo Jiang , Zitai Zhou , Xiao Wang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Despite weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) being a promising step toward evading strong instance-level annotations, its capability is confined to closed-set categories within a single training dataset. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jianghang Lin , Yunhang Shen , Bingquan Wang , Shaohui Lin , Ke Li , Liujuan Cao

As human-machine interaction continues to evolve, the capacity for environmental perception is becoming increasingly crucial. Integrating the two most common types of sensory data, images, and point clouds, can enhance detection accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Kai Luo , Hao Wu , Kefu Yi , Kailun Yang , Wei Hao , Rongdong Hu

Salient object detection is a fundamental problem and has been received a great deal of attentions in computer vision. Recently deep learning model became a powerful tool for image feature extraction. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Fen Xiao , Wenzheng Deng , Liangchan Peng , Chunhong Cao , Kai Hu , Xieping Gao

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

The generic object detection (GOD) task has been successfully tackled by recent deep neural networks, trained by an avalanche of annotated training samples from some common classes. However, it is still non-trivial to generalize these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Tianying Liu , Lu Zhang , Yang Wang , Jihong Guan , Yanwei Fu , Jiajia Zhao , Shuigeng Zhou

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims to detect objects using only a few examples. How to adapt state-of-the-art object detectors to the few-shot domain remains challenging. Object proposal is a key ingredient in modern object detectors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Guangxing Han , Shiyuan Huang , Jiawei Ma , Yicheng He , Shih-Fu Chang

Depth can provide useful geographical cues for salient object detection (SOD), and has been proven helpful in recent RGB-D SOD methods. However, existing video salient object detection (VSOD) methods only utilize spatiotemporal information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yukang Lu , Dingyao Min , Keren Fu , Qijun Zhao

Visual grouping -- operationalized through tasks such as instance segmentation, visual grounding, and object detection -- enables applications ranging from robotic perception to photo editing. These fundamental problems in computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Weikai Huang , Jieyu Zhang , Taoyang Jia , Chenhao Zheng , Ziqi Gao , Jae Sung Park , Winson Han , Ranjay Krishna

Salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (ORSI-SOD) has been widely explored for understanding ORSIs. However, previous methods focus mainly on improving the detection accuracy while neglecting the cost in memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Gongyang Li , Zhi Liu , Zhen Bai , Weisi Lin , and Haibin Ling

We study the problem of Salient Object Subitizing, i.e. predicting the existence and the number of salient objects in an image using holistic cues. This task is inspired by the ability of people to quickly and accurately identify the number…

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