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We present the RSSOD-Bench dataset for salient object detection (SOD) in optical remote sensing imagery. While SOD has achieved success in natural scene images with deep learning, research in SOD for remote sensing imagery (RSSOD) is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zhitong Xiong , Yanfeng Liu , Qi Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Salient object detection (SOD) in complex environments remains a challenging research topic. Most existing methods perform well in natural scenes with negligible noise, and tend to leverage multi-modal information (e.g., depth and infrared)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Quan Chen , Xiong Yang , Bolun Zheng , Rongfeng Lu , Xiaokai Yang , Qianyu Zhang , Yu Liu , Xiaofei Zhou

Fixation prediction (FP) in panoramic contents has been widely investigated along with the booming trend of virtual reality (VR) applications. However, another issue within the field of visual saliency, salient object detection (SOD), has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Yi Zhang , Lu Zhang , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

Although most existing multi-modal salient object detection (SOD) methods demonstrate effectiveness through training models from scratch, the limited multi-modal data hinders these methods from reaching optimality. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Kunpeng Wang , Danying Lin , Chenglong Li , Zhengzheng Tu , Bin Luo

The diverse spatial resolutions, various object types, scales and orientations, and cluttered backgrounds in optical remote sensing images (RSIs) challenge the current salient object detection (SOD) approaches. It is commonly unsatisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Chongyi Li , Runmin Cong , Chunle Guo , Hua Li , Chunjie Zhang , Feng Zheng , Yao Zhao

Hyperspectral salient object detection (HSOD) aims to extract targets or regions with significantly different spectra from hyperspectral images. While existing deep learning-based methods can achieve good detection results, they generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Peifu Liu , Tingfa Xu , Guokai Shi , Jingxuan Xu , Huan Chen , Jianan Li

As an essential problem in computer vision, salient object detection (SOD) has attracted an increasing amount of research attention over the years. Recent advances in SOD are predominantly led by deep learning-based solutions (named deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Wenguan Wang , Qiuxia Lai , Huazhu Fu , Jianbing Shen , Haibin Ling , Ruigang Yang

In recent years, deep network-based methods have continuously refreshed state-of-the-art performance on Salient Object Detection (SOD) task. However, the performance discrepancy caused by different implementation details may conceal the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Huajun Zhou , Yang Lin , Lingxiao Yang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie

Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment the most conspicuous objects in an image or video. As an important pre-processing step, it has many potential applications in multimedia and vision tasks. With the advance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xinhao Deng , Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , 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

Salient object detection (SOD), which aims to find the most important region of interest and segment the relevant object/item in that area, is an important yet challenging vision task. This problem is inspired by the fact that human seems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Pingping Zhang , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

We present a simple yet effective progressive self-guided loss function to facilitate deep learning-based salient object detection (SOD) in images. The saliency maps produced by the most relevant works still suffer from incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sheng Yang , Weisi Lin , Guosheng Lin , Qiuping Jiang , Zichuan Liu

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

While the human visual system employs distinct mechanisms to perceive salient and camouflaged objects, existing models struggle to disentangle these tasks. Specifically, salient object detection (SOD) models frequently misclassify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhangjun Zhou , Yiping Li , Chunlin Zhong , Jianuo Huang , Jialun Pei , Hua Li , He Tang

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

Depth images and thermal images contain the spatial geometry information and surface temperature information, which can act as complementary information for the RGB modality. However, the quality of the depth and thermal images is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Liuxin Bao , Xiaofei Zhou , Xiankai Lu , Yaoqi Sun , Haibing Yin , Zhenghui Hu , Jiyong Zhang , Chenggang Yan

Salient object detection (SOD), which simulates the human visual perception system to locate the most attractive object(s) in a scene, has been widely applied to various computer vision tasks. Now, with the advent of depth sensors, depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Tao Zhou , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

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

The main purpose of RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) is how to better integrate and utilize cross-modal fusion information. In this paper, we explore these issues from a new perspective. We integrate the features of different modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Youwei Pang , Lihe Zhang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Huchuan Lu

Salient object detection plays an important role in many downstream tasks. However, complex real-world scenes with varying scales and numbers of salient objects still pose a challenge. In this paper, we directly address the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Bowen Deng , Andrew P. French , Michael P. Pound