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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

Optical Remote Sensing Image Salient Object Detection (ORSI-SOD) remains challenging due to complex backgrounds, low contrast, irregular object shapes, and large variations in object scale. Existing discriminative methods directly regress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Haojing Chen , Zhihang Liu , Yutong Li , Tao Tan , Haoyu Bian , Qiuju Ma

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

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

Recent Salient Object Detection (SOD) systems are mostly based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, Deeply Supervised Saliency (DSS) system has shown it is very useful to add short connections to the network and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Sen Jia , Neil D. B. Bruce

Salient object detection aims to locate objects that capture human attention within images. Previous approaches often pose this as a problem of image contrast analysis. In this work, we model an image as a hypergraph that utilizes a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Xi Li , Yao Li , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel

Recent advances in deep learning significantly boost the performance of salient object detection (SOD) at the expense of labeling larger-scale per-pixel annotations. To relieve the burden of labor-intensive labeling, deep unsupervised SOD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Pengxiang Yan , Ziyi Wu , Mengmeng Liu , Kun Zeng , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Existing CNNs-Based RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) networks are all required to be pretrained on the ImageNet to learn the hierarchy features which helps provide a good initialization. However, the collection and annotation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Xiaoqi Zhao , Youwei Pang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu , Xiang Ruan

Video-based computer vision tasks can benefit from estimation of the salient regions and interactions between those regions. Traditionally, this has been done by identifying the object regions in the images by utilizing pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Arulkumar Subramaniam , Jayesh Vaidya , Muhammed Abdul Majeed Ameen , Athira Nambiar , Anurag Mittal

With the human pursuit of knowledge, open-set object detection (OSOD) has been designed to identify unknown objects in a dynamic world. However, an issue with the current setting is that all the predicted unknown objects share the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jiyang Zheng , Weihao Li , Jie Hong , Lars Petersson , Nick Barnes

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

Depth cues with affluent spatial information have been proven beneficial in boosting salient object detection (SOD), while the depth quality directly affects the subsequent SOD performance. However, it is inevitable to obtain some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Zhou Huang , Huai-Xin Chen , Tao Zhou , Yun-Zhi Yang , Bi-Yuan Liu

Fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) have shown outstanding performance in many computer vision tasks including salient object detection. However, there still remains two issues needed to be addressed in deep learning based saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Chunbiao Zhu , Xing Cai , Kan Huang , Thomas H Li , Ge Li

Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD), aiming to explore unlabeled data for boosting object detectors, has become an active task in recent years. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving multi-oriented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Wei Hua , Dingkang Liang , Jingyu Li , Xiaolong Liu , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiang Bai

Underwater salient object detection (USOD) plays a vital role in marine vision tasks but remains fundamentally challenging due to severe visual degradation, such as selective absorption and medium scattering. Conventional pipelines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Laibin Chang , Shaodong Wang , Yunke Wang , Xu Zhang , Kui Jiang , Chang Xu , Bo Du

Salient Object Detection (SOD) remains an essential yet underexplored task in the era of large-scale vision models. Although foundation models like SAM exhibit strong generalization, their potential for SOD is not fully realized, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Morteza Moradi , Mohammad Moradi , Simone Palazzo , Ali Borji , Concetto Spampinato

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

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

Due to the extreme complexity of scale and shape as well as the uncertainty of the predicted location, salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (RSI-SOD) is a very difficult task. The existing SOD methods can satisfy the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yuhan Lin , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu , Yetong Bian , Jun Cen , Huiyu Zhou

Salient object detection (SOD) aims to segment visually prominent regions in images and serves as a foundational task for various computer vision applications. We posit that SOD can now reach near-supervised accuracy without a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Muhammad Umer Ramzan , Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , Noman Ali , Usman Ali , Wei Xiang