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RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) demonstrates its superiority on detecting in complex environments due to the additional depth information introduced in the data. Inevitably, an independent stream is introduced to extract features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Guangyu Ren , Yinxiao Yu , Hengyan Liu , Tania Stathaki

Deep convolutional neural networks have become a key element in the recent breakthrough of salient object detection. However, existing CNN-based methods are based on either patch-wise (region-wise) training and inference or fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

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 (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

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

Many works have been done on salient object detection using supervised or unsupervised approaches on colour images. Recently, a few studies demonstrated that efficient salient object detection can also be implemented by using spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Nevrez Imamoglu , Yu Oishi , Xiaoqiang Zhang , Guanqun Ding , Yuming Fang , Toru Kouyama , Ryosuke Nakamura

Salient object detection (SOD) on RGB and depth images has attracted more and more research interests, due to its effectiveness and the fact that depth cues can now be conveniently captured. Existing RGB-D SOD models usually adopt different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Tao Zhou , Deng-Ping Fan , Geng Chen , Yi Zhou , Huazhu Fu

Video salient object detection (VSOD) aims to locate and segment the most attractive object by exploiting both spatial cues and temporal cues hidden in video sequences. However, spatial and temporal cues are often unreliable in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Peijia Chen , Jianhuang Lai , Guangcong Wang , Huajun Zhou

Small object detection (SOD) remains challenging due to extremely limited pixels and ambiguous object boundaries. These characteristics lead to challenging annotation, limited availability of large-scale high-quality datasets, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haoran Zhu , Wen Yang , Guangyou Yang , Chang Xu , Ruixiang Zhang , Fang Xu , Haijian Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

Image salient object detection (SOD) is an active research topic in computer vision and multimedia area. Fusing complementary information of RGB and depth has been demonstrated to be effective for image salient object detection which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Bo Jiang , Zitai Zhou , Xiao Wang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

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

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

In the computer vision community, great progresses have been achieved in salient object detection from natural scene images (NSI-SOD); by contrast, salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (RSI-SOD) remains to be a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Gongyang Li , Zhi Liu , Weisi Lin , Haibin Ling

Weakly supervised salient object detection (WSOD) targets to train a CNNs-based saliency network using only low-cost annotations. Existing WSOD methods take various techniques to pursue single "high-quality" pseudo label from low-cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Yongri Piao , Jian Wang , Miao Zhang , Huchuan Lu

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

The eye-tracking video saliency prediction (VSP) task and video salient object detection (VSOD) task both focus on the most attractive objects in video and show the result in the form of predictive heatmaps and pixel-level saliency masks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qi Qin , Runmin Cong , Gen Zhan , Yiting Liao , Sam Kwong

Fully supervised salient object detection (SOD) methods have made considerable progress in performance, yet these models rely heavily on expensive pixel-wise labels. Recently, to achieve a trade-off between labeling burden and performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Binwei Xu , Haoran Liang , Weihua Gong , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

This paper investigates a fundamental yet underexplored issue in Salient Object Detection (SOD): the size-invariant property for evaluation protocols, particularly in scenarios when multiple salient objects of significantly different sizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Shilong Bao , Qianqian Xu , Feiran Li , Boyu Han , Zhiyong Yang , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Salient object detection has achieved great improvement by using the Fully Convolution Network (FCN). However, the FCN-based U-shape architecture may cause the dilution problem in the high-level semantic information during the up-sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Guangyu Ren , Tianhong Dai , Panagiotis Barmpoutis , Tania Stathaki

By the aid of attention mechanisms to weight the image features adaptively, recent advanced deep learning-based models encourage the predicted results to approximate the ground-truth masks with as large predictable areas as possible, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Jia Li , Jinming Su , Changqun Xia , Mingcan Ma , Yonghong Tian