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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yu Zhang , Haoan Ping , Yuchen Li , Zhenshan Bing , Fuchun Sun , Alois Knoll

Recent deep learning-based video salient object detection (VSOD) has achieved some breakthrough, but these methods rely on expensive annotated videos with pixel-wise annotations, weak annotations, or part of the pixel-wise annotations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Binwei Xu , Haoran Liang , Wentian Ni , Weihua Gong , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

Visual salient object detection (SOD) aims at finding the salient object(s) that attract human attention, while camouflaged object detection (COD) on the contrary intends to discover the camouflaged object(s) that hidden in the surrounding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Aixuan Li , Jing Zhang , Yunqiu Lv , Bowen Liu , Tong Zhang , Yuchao Dai

With the rapid development of depth sensor, more and more RGB-D videos could be obtained. Identifying the foreground in RGB-D videos is a fundamental and important task. However, the existing salient object detection (SOD) works only focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Junhao Lin , Lei Zhu , Jiaxing Shen , Huazhu Fu , Qing Zhang , Liansheng Wang

Multi-modal salient object detection (MSOD) aims to boost saliency detection performance by integrating visible sources with depth or thermal infrared ones. Existing methods generally design different fusion schemes to handle certain issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Kunpeng Wang , Zhengzheng Tu , Chenglong Li , Cheng Zhang , Bin Luo

Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment prominent regions within a scene. Traditional models rely on manually annotated pseudo labels with precise pixel-level accuracy, which is time-consuming. We developed a low-cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Miaoyang He , Shuyong Gao , Tsui Qin Mok , Weifeng Ge , Wengqiang Zhang

In this work, we propose to utilize Convolutional Neural Networks to boost the performance of depth-induced salient object detection by capturing the high-level representative features for depth modality. We formulate the depth-induced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Hao Chen , Y. F. Li , Dan Su

Developing a new Salient Object Detection (SOD) model involves selecting an ImageNet pre-trained backbone and creating novel feature refinement modules to use backbone features. However, adding new components to a pre-trained backbone needs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Rohit Venkata Sai Dulam , Chandra Kambhamettu

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to segment objects that blend seamlessly into complex backgrounds, with growing interest in exploiting additional visual modalities to enhance robustness through complementary information. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hao Wang , Jiqing Zhang , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Lu Jiang , Zetian Mi , Huibing Wang

Salient object detection (SOD) in remote sensing images faces significant challenges due to large variations in object sizes, the computational cost of self-attention mechanisms, and the limitations of CNN-based extractors in capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Bin Wan , Runmin Cong , Xiaofei Zhou , Hao Fang , Yaoqi Sun , Sam Kwong

Recently CNN-based RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) has obtained significant improvement on detection accuracy. However, existing models often fail to perform well in terms of efficiency and accuracy simultaneously. This hinders their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Wenbo Zhang , Keren Fu , Zhuo Wang , Ge-Peng Ji , Qijun Zhao

Salient object detection (SOD) aims at finding the most salient objects in images and outputs pixel-level binary masks. Transformer-based methods achieve promising performance due to their global semantic understanding, crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Wen Liang , Peipei Ran , Mengchao Bai , Xiao Liu , P. Bilha Githinji , Wei Zhao , Peiwu Qin

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

Exploring to what humans pay attention in dynamic panoramic scenes is useful for many fundamental applications, including augmented reality (AR) in retail, AR-powered recruitment, and visual language navigation. With this goal in mind, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Yi Zhang

Most existing lightweight RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) models are based on two-stream structure or single-stream structure. The former one first uses two sub-networks to extract unimodal features from RGB and depth images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Nianchang Huang , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han

Salient Object Detection (SOD) is a popular and important topic aimed at precise detection and segmentation of the interesting regions in the images. We integrate the linguistic information into the vision-based U-Structure networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Yunqing Bao , Hang Dai , Abdulmotaleb Elsaddik

Foundation models, such as OpenAI's GPT-3 and GPT-4, Meta's LLaMA, and Google's PaLM2, have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence. A notable paradigm shift has been the advent of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), which has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ruikai Cui , Siyuan He , Shi Qiu

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

This paper researches the unexplored task-point cloud salient object detection (SOD). Differing from SOD for images, we find the attention shift of point clouds may provoke saliency conflict, i.e., an object paradoxically belongs to salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Songlin Fan , Wei Gao , Ge Li

This paper addresses the challenge of deploying salient object detection (SOD) on resource-constrained devices with real-time performance. While recent advances in deep neural networks have improved SOD, existing top-leading models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhuo Su , Li Liu , Matthias Müller , Jiehua Zhang , Diana Wofk , Ming-Ming Cheng , Matti Pietikäinen