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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

Recent deep learning based salient object detection methods which utilize both saliency and boundary features have achieved remarkable performance. However, most of them ignore the complementarity between saliency features and boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Fangting Lin , Chao Yang , Huizhou Li , Bin Jiang

A light field camera can reconstruct 3D scenes using captured multi-focus images that contain rich spatial geometric information, enhancing applications in stereoscopic photography, virtual reality, and robotic vision. In this work, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zhengyi Liu , Longzhen Wang , Xianyong Fang , Zhengzheng Tu , Linbo Wang

Recent progress on saliency detection is substantial, benefiting mostly from the explosive development of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Semantic segmentation and saliency detection algorithms developed lately have been mostly based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiao-Wei Hu , Ali Borji , Zhuowen Tu , Philip Torr

Underwater object detection (UOD) is crucial for marine economic development, environmental protection, and the planet's sustainable development. The main challenges of this task arise from low-contrast, small objects, and mimicry of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Linhui Dai , Hong Liu , Pinhao Song , Hao Tang , Runwei Ding , Shengquan Li

Efficiently modeling massive images is a long-standing challenge in machine learning. To this end, we introduce Multi-Scale Attention (MSA). MSA relies on two key ideas, (i) multi-scale representations (ii) bi-directional cross-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Kumar Krishna Agrawal , Long Lian , Longchao Liu , Natalia Harguindeguy , Boyi Li , Alexander Bick , Maggie Chung , Trevor Darrell , Adam Yala

Alignment-free RGB-Thermal (RGB-T) salient object detection (SOD) aims to achieve robust performance in complex scenes by directly leveraging the complementary information from unaligned visible-thermal image pairs, without requiring manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Kunpeng Wang , Keke Chen , Chenglong Li , Zhengzheng Tu , Bin Luo

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

In this work, we propose a novel neural network focusing on semantic labeling of ALS point clouds, which investigates the importance of long-range spatial and channel-wise relations and is termed as global relation-aware attentional network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Rong Huang , Yusheng Xu , Uwe Stilla

Oriented object detection for multi-spectral imagery faces significant challenges due to differences both within and between modalities. Although existing methods have improved detection accuracy through complex network architectures, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Leiyu Wang , Biao Jin , Feng Huang , Liqiong Chen , Zhengyong Wang , Xiaohai He , Honggang Chen

Visual attention brings significant progress for Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) in various applications. In this paper, object-based attention in human visual cortex inspires us to introduce a mechanism for modification of activations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Saeed Masoudnia , Melika Kheirieh , Abdol-Hossein Vahabie , Babak Nadjar Araabi

Multimodal remote sensing semantic segmentation enhances scene interpretation by exploiting complementary physical cues from heterogeneous data. Although pretrained Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) provide strong general-purpose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Haocheng Li , Juepeng Zheng , Shuangxi Miao , Ruibo Lu , Guosheng Cai , Haohuan Fu , Jianxi Huang

Typically, objects with the same semantics are not always prominent in images containing different backgrounds. Motivated by this observation that accurately salient object detection is related to both foreground and background, we proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Changqun Xia , Jia Li , Jinming Su , Yonghong Tian

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task that has been deeply studied in recent years. Most of the common solutions exploit class activation map (CAM) to locate object regions. However, such response maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yukun Su , Jingliang Deng , Zonghan Li

Purpose: Deep learning methods have shown promising results in the segmentation, and detection of diseases in medical images. However, most methods are trained and tested on data from a single source, modality, organ, or disease type,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Nchongmaje Ndipenocha , Alina Mirona , Kezhi Wanga , Yongmin Li

The semantic representation of deep features is essential for image context understanding, and effective fusion of features with different semantic representations can significantly improve the model's performance on salient object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Han Sun , Jun Cen , Ningzhong Liu , Dong Liang , Huiyu Zhou

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

Fast and accurate video object recognition, which relies on frame-by-frame video analytics, remains a challenge for resource-constrained devices such as traffic cameras. Recent advances in mobile edge computing have made it possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Kun Guo , Yun Shen , Xijun Wang , Chaoqun You , Yun Rui , Tony Q. S. Quek

Detecting tiny objects in remote sensing (RS) imagery has been a long-standing challenge due to their extremely limited spatial information, weak feature representations, and dense distributions across complex backgrounds. Despite numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Xiaozheng Jiang , Wei Zhang , Xuerui Mao

In this paper, we solve three low-level pixel-wise vision problems, including salient object segmentation, edge detection, and skeleton extraction, within a unified framework. We first show some similarities shared by these tasks and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Jiang-Jiang Liu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng