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Recent salient object detection (SOD) methods aim to improve performance in four key directions: semantic enhancement, boundary refinement, auxiliary task supervision, and multi-modal fusion. In pursuit of continuous gains, these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yu Zhang , Haoan Ping , Yuchen Li , Zhenshan Bing , Fuchun Sun , Alois Knoll

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

Our paper introduces a novel two-stage self-supervised approach for detecting co-occurring salient objects (CoSOD) in image groups without requiring segmentation annotations. Unlike existing unsupervised methods that rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Souradeep Chakraborty , Dimitris Samaras

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based salient object detection methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance and outperform those unsupervised methods with a wide margin. In this paper, we propose to integrate deep and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Jing Zhang , Bo Li , Yuchao Dai , Fatih Porikli , Mingyi He

Salient object detection (SOD) and camouflaged object detection (COD) are related yet distinct binary mapping tasks. These tasks involve multiple modalities, sharing commonalities and unique cues. Existing research often employs intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Ziyang Luo , Nian Liu , Wangbo Zhao , Xuguang Yang , Dingwen Zhang , Deng-Ping Fan , Fahad Khan , Junwei Han

Salient object detection (SOD), a foundational task in computer vision, has advanced from single-modal to multi-modal paradigms to enhance generalization. However, most existing SOD methods assume low-noise visual conditions, overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Quan Chen , Xiaokai Yang , Tingyu Wang , Rongfeng Lu , Xichun Sheng , Yaoqi Sun , Chenggang Yan

Small Object Detection (SOD) poses significant challenges due to limited information and the model's low class prediction score. While Transformer-based detectors have shown promising performance, their potential for SOD remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Guiping Cao , Wenjian Huang , Xiangyuan Lan , Jianguo Zhang , Dongmei Jiang , Yaowei Wang

Object detection under imperfect data receives great attention recently. Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) suffers from severe localization issues due to the lack of instance-level annotation, while semi-supervised object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Hanjun Li , Xingjia Pan , Ke Yan , Fan Tang , Wei-Shi Zheng

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

The goal of salient region detection is to identify the regions of an image that attract the most attention. Many methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance levels on this task. Recently, salient instance segmentation has become an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Jialun Pei , He Tang , Chao Liu , Chuanbo Chen

Salient object detection (SOD) is a task that involves identifying and segmenting the most visually prominent object in an image. Existing solutions can accomplish this use a multi-scale feature fusion mechanism to detect the global context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Yongwoo Lee , Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Sangyoun Lee

Semi-supervised 3D object detection (SS3DOD) aims to reduce costly 3D annotations utilizing unlabeled data. Recent studies adopt pseudo-label-based teacher-student frameworks and demonstrate impressive performance. The main challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Taehun Kong , Tae-Kyun Kim

Salient objects attract human attention and usually stand out clearly from their surroundings. In contrast, camouflaged objects share similar colors or textures with the environment. In this case, salient objects are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Aixuan Li , Jing Zhang , Yunqiu Lv , Tong Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Mingyi He , Yuchao Dai

Underwater salient object detection (USOD) has attracted increasing attention for underwater visual scene understanding and vision-guided robotic applications. However, existing USOD methods still struggle with underwater image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Lin Hong , Chenhui Wang , Linan Deng , Yuning Cui , Yu Zhang , Xin Wang , Bojian Zhang , Wenqi Ren , Xingchen Yang , Fumin Zhang

Salient object detection or salient region detection models, diverging from fixation prediction models, have traditionally been dealing with locating and segmenting the most salient object or region in a scene. While the notion of most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Ali Borji

Although most existing multi-modal salient object detection (SOD) methods demonstrate effectiveness through training models from scratch, the limited multi-modal data hinders these methods from reaching optimality. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Kunpeng Wang , Danying Lin , Chenglong Li , Zhengzheng Tu , Bin Luo

Salient object detection(SOD) aims at locating the most significant object within a given image. In recent years, great progress has been made in applying SOD on many vision tasks. The depth map could provide additional spatial prior and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Guangyu Ren , Yanchu Xie , Tianhong Dai , Tania Stathaki

Weakly-supervised object detection (WSOD) models attempt to leverage image-level annotations in lieu of accurate but costly-to-obtain object localization labels. This oftentimes leads to substandard object detection and localization at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yuting Wang , Ricardo Guerrero , Vladimir Pavlovic

This paper focuses on camouflaged object detection (COD), which is a task to detect objects hidden in the background. Most of the current COD models aim to highlight the target object directly while outputting ambiguous camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Nobukatsu Kajiura , Hong Liu , Shin'ichi Satoh

RGB-thermal salient object detection (SOD) aims to segment the common prominent regions of visible image and corresponding thermal infrared image that we call it RGBT SOD. Existing methods don't fully explore and exploit the potentials of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Zhengzheng Tu , Zhun Li , Chenglong Li , Yang Lang , Jin Tang