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Salient Object Detection (SOD) has traditionally relied on feature refinement modules that utilize the features of an ImageNet pre-trained backbone. However, this approach limits the possibility of pre-training the entire network because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Rohit Venkata Sai Dulam , Chandra Kambhamettu

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

Point cloud salient object detection has attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. Since existing works do not fully utilize the geometry context of 3D objects, blurry boundaries are generated when segmenting objects with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Chen Wang , Liyuan Zhang , Le Hui , Qi Liu , Yuchao Dai

In this paper, we tackle the challenging task of unsupervised salient object detection (SOD) by leveraging spectral clustering on self-supervised features. We make the following contributions: (i) We revisit spectral clustering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Gyungin Shin , Samuel Albanie , Weidi Xie

Salient object detection exemplifies data-bounded tasks where expensive pixel-precise annotations force separate model training for related subtasks like DIS and HR-SOD. We present a method that dramatically improves generalization through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Orest Kupyn , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Christian Rupprecht

Salient objects attract human attention and usually stand out clearly from their surroundings. In contrast, camouflaged objects share similar colors or textures with the environment. In this case, salient objects are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Aixuan Li , Jing Zhang , Yunqiu Lv , Tong Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Mingyi He , Yuchao Dai

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

This paper identifies and addresses a serious design bias of existing salient object detection (SOD) datasets, which unrealistically assume that each image should contain at least one clear and uncluttered salient object. This design bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Deng-Ping Fan , Jing Zhang , Gang Xu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ling Shao

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) plays a crucial role in many computer vision applications, requiring accurate localization and precise boundary delineation of salient regions. In this work, we present a novel framework that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abhinav Sagar

Weakly-supervised salient object detection (WSOD) aims to develop saliency models using image-level annotations. Despite of the success of previous works, explorations on an effective training strategy for the saliency network and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yongri Piao , Jian Wang , Miao Zhang , Zhengxuan Ma , Huchuan Lu

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

Salient object detection (SOD) aims to determine the most visually attractive objects in an image. With the development of virtual reality technology, 360{\deg} omnidirectional image has been widely used, but the SOD task in 360{\deg}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Runmin Cong , Ke Huang , Jianjun Lei , Yao Zhao , Qingming Huang , Sam Kwong

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

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

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

By the aid of attention mechanisms to weight the image features adaptively, recent advanced deep learning-based models encourage the predicted results to approximate the ground-truth masks with as large predictable areas as possible, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Jia Li , Jinming Su , Changqun Xia , Mingcan Ma , Yonghong Tian

Co-salient object detection targets at detecting co-existed salient objects among a group of images. Recently, a generalist model for segmenting everything in context, called SegGPT, is gaining public attention. In view of its breakthrough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yi Liu , Shoukun Xu , Dingwen Zhang , Jungong Han

Salient object detection (SOD) on RGB and depth images has attracted more and more research interests, due to its effectiveness and the fact that depth cues can now be conveniently captured. Existing RGB-D SOD models usually adopt different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Tao Zhou , Deng-Ping Fan , Geng Chen , Yi Zhou , Huazhu Fu

Salient object detection, 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 challenging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen