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Salient object detection aims at detecting the most visually distinct objects and producing the corresponding masks. As the cost of pixel-level annotations is high, image tags are usually used as weak supervisions. However, an image tag can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Xiaoyang Zheng , Xin Tan , Jie Zhou , Lizhuang Ma , Rynson W. H. Lau

Light field salient object detection (SOD) is an emerging research direction attributed to the richness of light field data. However, most existing methods lack effective handling of focal stacks, therefore making the latter involved in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Bo Yuan , Yao Jiang , Keren Fu , Qijun Zhao

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

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

Existing state-of-the-art saliency detection methods heavily rely on CNN-based architectures. Alternatively, we rethink this task from a convolution-free sequence-to-sequence perspective and predict saliency by modeling long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Nian Liu , Ni Zhang , Kaiyuan Wan , Ling Shao , Junwei Han

Reducing the annotation cost of oriented object detection in remote sensing remains a major challenge. Recently, sparse annotation has gained attention for effectively reducing annotation redundancy in densely remote sensing scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yu Lin , Jianghang Lin , Kai Ye , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao

Depth cues with affluent spatial information have been proven beneficial in boosting salient object detection (SOD), while the depth quality directly affects the subsequent SOD performance. However, it is inevitable to obtain some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Zhou Huang , Huai-Xin Chen , Tao Zhou , Yun-Zhi Yang , Bi-Yuan Liu

Image-based salient object detection (ISOD) in 360{\deg} scenarios is significant for understanding and applying panoramic information. However, research on 360{\deg} ISOD has not been widely explored due to the lack of large, complex,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Junjie Wu , Changqun Xia , Tianshu Yu , Jia Li

Salient object detection is a fundamental topic in computer vision. Previous methods based on RGB-D often suffer from the incompatibility of multi-modal feature fusion and the insufficiency of multi-scale feature aggregation. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Xian Fang , Jinchao Zhu , Ruixun Zhang , Xiuli Shao , Hongpeng Wang

We provide a comprehensive evaluation of salient object detection (SOD) models. Our analysis identifies a serious design bias of existing SOD datasets which assumes that each image contains at least one clearly outstanding salient object in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Shang-Hua Gao , Qibin Hou , Ali Borji

Co-Salient Object Detection (CoSOD) aims at simulating the human visual system to discover the common and salient objects from a group of relevant images. Recent methods typically develop sophisticated deep learning based models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Lv Tang , Bo Li

Salient object detection is subjective in nature, which implies that multiple estimations should be related to the same input image. Most existing salient object detection models are deterministic following a point to point estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xinyu Tian , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai

Benefiting from the spatial cues embedded in depth images, recent progress on RGB-D saliency detection shows impressive ability on some challenge scenarios. However, there are still two limitations. One hand is that the pooling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Wei Ji , Jingjing Li , Miao Zhang , Yongri Piao , Huchuan Lu

In the past few years, numerous deep learning methods have been proposed to address the task of segmenting salient objects from RGB images. However, these approaches depending on single modality fail to achieve the state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yi Zhang , Lu Zhang , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

In view of the problems that existing salient object detection (SOD) methods are prone to losing details, blurring edges, and insufficient fusion of single-modal information in complex scenes, this paper proposes a dynamic uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yuqi Xiong , Wuzhen Shi , Yang Wen , Ruhan Liu

Salient object detection has seen remarkable progress driven by deep learning techniques. However, most of deep learning based salient object detection methods are black-box in nature and lacking in interpretability. This paper proposes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Huaxin Xiao , Jiashi Feng , Yunchao Wei , Maojun Zhang

Salient Object Detection (SOD) remains an essential yet underexplored task in the era of large-scale vision models. Although foundation models like SAM exhibit strong generalization, their potential for SOD is not fully realized, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Morteza Moradi , Mohammad Moradi , Simone Palazzo , Ali Borji , Concetto Spampinato

Co-salient object detection (Co-SOD) aims to identify common salient objects across a group of related images. While recent methods have made notable progress, they typically rely on low-level visual patterns and lack semantic priors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jiayi Zhu , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yihao Huang , Yang Liu , Geguang Pu

In recent years, RGB-T salient object detection (SOD) has attracted continuous attention, which makes it possible to identify salient objects in environments such as low light by introducing thermal image. However, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Runmin Cong , Kepu Zhang , Chen Zhang , Feng Zheng , Yao Zhao , Qingming Huang , Sam Kwong

The reasonable employment of RGB and depth data show great significance in promoting the development of computer vision tasks and robot-environment interaction. However, there are different advantages and disadvantages in the early and late…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Jinchao Zhu