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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

The real human attention is an interactive activity between our visual system and our brain, using both low-level visual stimulus and high-level semantic information. Previous image salient object detection (SOD) works conduct their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

Camouflaged object detection (COD) and salient object detection (SOD) are two distinct yet closely-related computer vision tasks widely studied during the past decades. Though sharing the same purpose of segmenting an image into binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Chao Hao , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Jun Xu , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

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

Salient object detection (SOD) is a long-standing research topic in computer vision and has drawn an increasing amount of research interest in the past decade. This paper provides the first comprehensive review and benchmark for light field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Keren Fu , Yao Jiang , Ge-Peng Ji , Tao Zhou , Qijun Zhao , Deng-Ping Fan

Recent progress on salient object detection (SOD) mainly benefits from multi-scale learning, where the high-level and low-level features collaborate in locating salient objects and discovering fine details, respectively. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yu-Huan Wu , Yun Liu , Le Zhang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Ren

Image-based salient object detection (SOD) has been extensively explored in the past decades. However, SOD on 360$^\circ$ omnidirectional images is less studied owing to the lack of datasets with pixel-level annotations. Toward this end,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jia Li , Jinming Su , Changqun Xia , Yonghong Tian

Salient object detection is a fundamental problem and has been received a great deal of attentions in computer vision. Recently deep learning model became a powerful tool for image feature extraction. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Fen Xiao , Wenzheng Deng , Liangchan Peng , Chunhong Cao , Kai Hu , Xieping Gao

We study the problem of Salient Object Subitizing, i.e. predicting the existence and the number of salient objects in an image using holistic cues. This task is inspired by the ability of people to quickly and accurately identify the number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Jianming Zhang , Shugao Ma , Mehrnoosh Sameki , Stan Sclaroff , Margrit Betke , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Brian Price , Radomir Mech

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

Recent research advances in salient object detection (SOD) could largely be attributed to ever-stronger multi-scale feature representation empowered by the deep learning technologies. The existing SOD deep models extract multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Hong Qin , Aimin Hao

Salient Object Detection (SOD) plays a crucial role in many computer vision applications, requiring accurate localization and precise boundary delineation of salient regions. In this work, we present a novel framework that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abhinav Sagar

With the goal of identifying pixel-wise salient object regions from each input image, salient object detection (SOD) has been receiving great attention in recent years. One kind of mainstream SOD methods is formed by a bottom-up feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Chaowei Fang , Haibin Tian , Dingwen Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han , Junwei Han

Compared with the conventional hand-crafted approaches, the deep learning based methods have achieved tremendous performance improvements by training exquisitely crafted fancy networks over large-scale training sets. However, do we really…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

In this paper, we propose a novel deep neural network framework embedded with low-level features (LCNN) for salient object detection in complex images. We utilise the advantage of convolutional neural networks to automatically learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Hongyang Li , Huchuan Lu , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Brian Price

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

Small object detection (SOD) in optical images and videos is a challenging problem that even state-of-the-art generic object detection methods fail to accurately localize and identify such objects. Typically, small objects appear in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Aref Miri Rekavandi , Lian Xu , Farid Boussaid , Abd-Krim Seghouane , Stephen Hoefs , Mohammed Bennamoun

Recently salient object detection has witnessed remarkable improvement owing to the deep convolutional neural networks which can harvest powerful features for images. In particular, state-of-the-art salient object detection methods enjoy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Haofeng Li , Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

Salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (ORSI-SOD) has been widely explored for understanding ORSIs. However, previous methods focus mainly on improving the detection accuracy while neglecting the cost in memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Gongyang Li , Zhi Liu , Zhen Bai , Weisi Lin , and Haibin Ling

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