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Concealed object detection (COD) in cluttered scenes is significant for various image processing applications. However, due to that concealed objects are always similar to their background, it is extremely hard to distinguish them. Here,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuhan Kang , Qingpeng Li , Leyuan Fang , Jian Zhao , Xuelong 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

This paper focuses on camouflaged object detection (COD), which is a task to detect objects hidden in the background. Most of the current COD models aim to highlight the target object directly while outputting ambiguous camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Nobukatsu Kajiura , Hong Liu , Shin'ichi Satoh

Object detection is one of the most fundamental yet challenging research topics in the domain of computer vision. Recently, the study on this topic in aerial images has made tremendous progress. However, complex background and worse imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zongqi Wei , Dong Liang , Dong Zhang , Liyan Zhang , Qixiang Geng , Mingqiang Wei , Huiyu Zhou

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to localize targets that exhibit minimal perceptual differences from backgrounds through physical attributes. Existing methods, constrained by the static train-then-freeze paradigm, suffer from domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mingfeng Zha , Tianyu Li , Guoqing Wang , Yunqiang Pei , Chaofan Qiao , Jiening Zhang , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Recent camouflaged object detection (COD) attempts to segment objects visually blended into their surroundings, which is extremely complex and difficult in real-world scenarios. Apart from the high intrinsic similarity between camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

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

Confidence-aware learning is proven as an effective solution to prevent networks becoming overconfident. We present a confidence-aware camouflaged object detection framework using dynamic supervision to produce both accurate camouflage map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Jiawei Liu , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

The recently proposed camouflaged object detection (COD) attempts to segment objects that are visually blended into their surroundings, which is extremely complex and difficult in real-world scenarios. Apart from high intrinsic similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

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

Camouflage is a key defence mechanism across species that is critical to survival. Common strategies for camouflage include background matching, imitating the color and pattern of the environment, and disruptive coloration, disguising body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yunqiu Lv , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Aixuan Li , Bowen Liu , Nick Barnes , Deng-Ping Fan

Recent research about camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment highly concealed objects hidden in complex surroundings. The tiny, fuzzy camouflaged objects result in visually indistinguishable properties. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Dehua Zheng , Xiaochen Zheng , Laurence T. Yang , Yuan Gao , Chenlu Zhu , Yiheng Ruan

Existing camouflaged object detection (COD) methods rely heavily on large-scale datasets with pixel-wise annotations. However, due to the ambiguous boundary, annotating camouflage objects pixel-wisely is very time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ruozhen He , Qihua Dong , Jiaying Lin , Rynson W. H. Lau

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to identify the objects that seamlessly blend into the surrounding backgrounds. Due to the intrinsic similarity between the camouflaged objects and the background region, it is extremely challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Siyuan Yao , Hao Sun , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Xiao Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Camouflaged object detection (COD) is the challenging task of identifying camouflaged objects visually blended into surroundings. Albeit achieving remarkable success, existing COD detectors still struggle to obtain precise results in some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chunming He , Kai Li , Yachao Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu

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

Recently, biological perception has been a powerful tool for handling the camouflaged object detection (COD) task. However, most existing methods are heavily dependent on the local spatial information of diverse scales from convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Yanguang Sun , Hanyu Xuan , Jian Yang , Lei Luo

Visually detecting camouflaged objects is a hard problem for both humans and computer vision algorithms. Strong similarities between object and background appearance make the task significantly more challenging than traditional object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Matthias Pijarowski , Alexander Wolpert , Martin Heckmann , Michael Teutsch

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to identify objects in images that are well hidden in the environment due to their high similarity to the background in terms of texture and color. However, existing most boundary-guided camouflage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Junmin Cai , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu

Detecting camouflaged objects in underwater environments is crucial for marine ecological research and resource exploration. However, existing methods face two key challenges: underwater image degradation, including low contrast and color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Xinxin Huang , Han Sun , Junmin Cai , Ningzhong Liu , Huiyu Zhou