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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

In this paper, we propose a novel data augmentation technique (ANDA) applied to the Salient Object Detection (SOD) context. Standard data augmentation techniques proposed in the literature, such as image cropping, rotation, flipping, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Daniel V. Ruiz , Bruno A. Krinski , Eduardo Todt

Fully supervised salient object detection (SOD) has made considerable progress based on expensive and time-consuming data with pixel-wise annotations. Recently, to relieve the labeling burden while maintaining performance, some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Binwei Xu , Haoran Liang , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

Semi-supervised Camouflaged Object Detection (SSCOD) aims to reduce reliance on costly pixel-level annotations by leveraging limited annotated data and abundant unlabeled data. However, existing SSCOD methods based on Teacher-Student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xihang Hu , Fuming Sun , Jiazhe Liu , Feilong Xu , Xiaoli Zhang

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

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

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

In this paper, we address the detection of co-occurring salient objects (CoSOD) in an image group using frequency statistics in an unsupervised manner, which further enable us to develop a semi-supervised method. While previous works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Souradeep Chakraborty , Shujon Naha , Muhammet Bastan , Amit Kumar K C , Dimitris Samaras

Object detection in sonar images is a key technology in underwater detection systems. Compared to natural images, sonar images contain fewer texture details and are more susceptible to noise, making it difficult for non-experts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chengzhou Li , Ping Guo , Guanchen Meng , Qi Jia , Jinyuan Liu , Zhu Liu , Xiaokang Liu , Yu Liu , Zhongxuan Luo , Xin Fan

In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive study on the co-salient object detection (CoSOD) problem for images. CoSOD is an emerging and rapidly growing extension of salient object detection (SOD), which aims to detect the co-occurring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Deng-Ping Fan , Tengpeng Li , Zheng Lin , Ge-Peng Ji , Dingwen Zhang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Huazhu Fu , Jianbing Shen

Automated salient object detection (SOD) plays an increasingly crucial role in many computer vision applications. By reformulating the depth information as supervision rather than as input, depth-supervised convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Heqin Zhu , Xu Sun , Yuexiang Li , Kai Ma , S. Kevin Zhou , Yefeng Zheng

Salient object detection (SOD) is viewed as a pixel-wise saliency modeling task by traditional deep learning-based methods. A limitation of current SOD models is insufficient utilization of inter-pixel information, which usually results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Ziyun Yang , Somayyeh Soltanian-Zadeh , Sina Farsiu

Recent advances in semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) are largely driven by consistency-based pseudo-labeling methods for image classification tasks, producing pseudo labels as supervisory signals. However, when using pseudo labels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Hengduo Li , Zuxuan Wu , Abhinav Shrivastava , Larry S. Davis

In this paper, we tackle the challenging task of unsupervised salient object detection (SOD) by leveraging spectral clustering on self-supervised features. We make the following contributions: (i) We revisit spectral clustering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Gyungin Shin , Samuel Albanie , Weidi Xie

The lack of object-level annotations poses a significant challenge for object detection in remote sensing images (RSIs). To address this issue, active learning (AL) and semi-supervised learning (SSL) techniques have been proposed to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Boxuan Zhang , Zengmao Wang , Bo Du

While we enjoy the richness and informativeness of multimodal data, it also introduces interference and redundancy of information. To achieve optimal domain interpretation with limited resources, we propose CSDNet, a lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xiaotong Yu , Ruihan Xie , Zhihe Zhao , Chang-Wen Chen

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

Video salient object detection models trained on pixel-wise dense annotation have achieved excellent performance, yet obtaining pixel-by-pixel annotated datasets is laborious. Several works attempt to use scribble annotations to mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Shuyong Gao , Haozhe Xing , Wei Zhang , Yan Wang , Qianyu Guo , Wenqiang Zhang

Salient object detection (SOD) in RGB-D images is an essential task in computer vision, enabling applications in scene understanding, robotics, and augmented reality. However, existing methods struggle to capture global dependency across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Gargi Panda , Soumitra Kundu , Saumik Bhattacharya , Aurobinda Routray

Achieving joint learning of Salient Object Detection (SOD) and Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) is extremely challenging due to their distinct object characteristics, i.e., saliency and camouflage. The only preliminary research treats…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yi Liu , Chengxin Li , Xiaohui Dong , Lei Li , Dingwen Zhang , Shoukun Xu , Jungong Han