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After learning a new object category from image-level annotations (with no object bounding boxes), humans are remarkably good at precisely localizing those objects. However, building good object localizers (i.e., detectors) currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zitian Chen , Zhiqiang Shen , Jiahui Yu , Erik Learned-Miller

Camouflaged object detection (COD), segmenting objects that are elegantly blended into their surroundings, is a valuable yet challenging task. Existing deep-learning methods often fall into the difficulty of accurately identifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yujia Sun , Shuo Wang , Chenglizhao Chen , Tian-Zhu Xiang

Big model has emerged as a new research paradigm that can be applied to various down-stream tasks with only minor effort for domain adaption. Correspondingly, this study tackles Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) leveraging the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Guoying Liang , Su Yang

Camouflaged object detection (COD), which aims to identify the objects that conceal themselves into the surroundings, has recently drawn increasing research efforts in the field of computer vision. In practice, the success of deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Geng Chen , Xinrui Chen , Bo Dong , Mingchen Zhuge , Yongxiong Wang , Hongbo Bi , Jian Chen , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to accurately detect objects hidden in the surrounding environment. However, the existing COD methods mainly locate camouflaged objects in the RGB domain, their performance has not been fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Runmin Cong , Mengyao Sun , Sanyi Zhang , Xiaofei Zhou , Wei Zhang , Yao Zhao

The camouflaged object detection (COD) task aims to identify and segment objects that blend into the background due to their similar color or texture. Despite the inherent difficulties of the task, COD has gained considerable attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Chaewon Park , Dogyoon Lee , Jungho Lee , Sangyoun Lee

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to identify the objects that conceal themselves in natural scenes. Accurate COD suffers from a number of challenges associated with low boundary contrast and the large variation of object appearances,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Geng Chen , Si-Jie Liu , Yu-Jia Sun , Ge-Peng Ji , Ya-Feng Wu , Tao Zhou

The difficulty of pixel-level annotation has significantly hindered the development of the Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) field. To save on annotation costs, previous works leverage the semi-supervised COD framework that relies on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Weiqi Yan , Lvhai Chen , Shengchuan Zhang , Yan Zhang , Liujuan Cao

Preys in the wild evolve to be camouflaged to avoid being recognized by predators. In this way, camouflage acts as a key defence mechanism across species that is critical to survival. To detect and segment the whole scope of a camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yunqiu Lv , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Aixuan Li , Nick Barnes , Deng-Ping Fan

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

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to segment targets that share extreme textural and structural similarities with their complex environments. Leveraging their capacity for long-range dependency modeling, Transformer-based detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuhan Gao , Shuhao Kang , Xin He , Bing Li , Xu Cheng , Yun Liu

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

Recent advances in self-supervised visual representation learning have paved the way for unsupervised methods tackling tasks such as object discovery and instance segmentation. However, discovering objects in an image with no supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Oriane Siméoni , Chloé Sekkat , Gilles Puy , Antonin Vobecky , Éloi Zablocki , Patrick Pérez

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

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD), the task of identifying objects concealed within their environments, has seen rapid growth due to its wide range of practical applications. A key step toward developing trustworthy COD systems is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Ziyue Yang , Kehan Wang , Yuhang Ming , Yong Peng , Han Yang , Qiong Chen , Wanzeng Kong

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

We present the first systematic study on concealed object detection (COD), which aims to identify objects that are "perfectly" embedded in their background. The high intrinsic similarities between the concealed objects and their background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Deng-Ping Fan , Ge-Peng Ji , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ling Shao

Camouflaged object detection (COD) remains a challenging task in computer vision. Existing methods often resort to additional branches for edge supervision, incurring substantial computational costs. To address this, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yang Hu , Jinxia Zhang , Kaihua Zhang , Yin Yuan , Jiale Huang , Zechao Zhan , Xing Wang

We consider the problem of referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD), a new task that aims to segment specified camouflaged objects based on a small set of referring images with salient target objects. We first assemble a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuying Zhang , Bowen Yin , Zheng Lin , Qibin Hou , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng

Point annotations are considerably more time-efficient than bounding box annotations. However, how to use cheap point annotations to boost the performance of semi-supervised object detection remains largely unsolved. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yongtao Ge , Qiang Zhou , Xinlong Wang , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li , Chunhua Shen