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Existing state-of-the-art salient object detection networks rely on aggregating multi-level features of pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Compared to high-level features, low-level features contribute less to performance but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Zhe Wu , Li Su , Qingming Huang

We present the first systematic study on concealed object detection (COD), which aims to identify objects that are "perfectly" embedded in their background. The high intrinsic similarities between the concealed objects and their background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Deng-Ping Fan , Ge-Peng Ji , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ling Shao

The recently proposed camouflaged object detection (COD) attempts to segment objects that are visually blended into their surroundings, which is extremely complex and difficult in real-world scenarios. Apart from high intrinsic similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

The core challenge in Camouflage Object Detection (COD) lies in the indistinguishable similarity between targets and backgrounds in terms of color, texture, and shape. This causes existing methods to either lose edge details (such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Jianlin Sun , Xiaolin Fang , Juwei Guan , Dongdong Gui , Teqi Wang , Tongxin Zhu

Camouflaged object detection identifies objects that blend seamlessly with their surroundings through similar colors, textures, and patterns. This task challenges both traditional segmentation methods and modern foundation models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Baber Jan , Aiman H. El-Maleh , Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui , Abdul Bais , Saeed Anwar

Most Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) methods heavily rely on mask annotations, which are time-consuming and labor-intensive to acquire. Existing weakly-supervised COD approaches exhibit significantly inferior performance compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Huafeng Chen , Pengxu Wei , Guangqian Guo , Shan Gao

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

This paper introduces DGNet, a novel deep framework that exploits object gradient supervision for camouflaged object detection (COD). It decouples the task into two connected branches, i.e., a context and a texture encoder. The essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ge-Peng Ji , Deng-Ping Fan , Yu-Cheng Chou , Dengxin Dai , Alexander Liniger , Luc Van Gool

Referring Camouflaged Object Detection (Ref-COD) segments specified camouflaged objects in a scene by leveraging a small set of referring images. Though effective, current systems adopt a dual-branch design that requires reference images at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yu-Huan Wu , Zi-Xuan Zhu , Yan Wang , Liangli Zhen , Deng-Ping Fan

Camouflaged Object Detection is challenging due to the high degree of similarity between camouflaged objects and their surrounding backgrounds. Current COD methods mainly rely on edge extraction in the spatial domain and local pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Song Yu , Yang Hu , Haokang Ding , Zhifang Liao , Yucheng Song

Current zero-shot Camouflaged Object Segmentation methods typically employ a two-stage pipeline (discover-then-segment): using MLLMs to obtain visual prompts, followed by SAM segmentation. However, relying solely on MLLMs for camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yilong Yang , Jianxin Tian , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao

Unsupervised Camouflaged Object Detection (UCOD) remains a challenging task due to the high intrinsic similarity between target objects and their surroundings, as well as the reliance on noisy pseudo-labels that hinder fine-grained texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Shuo Jiang , Gaojia Zhang , Min Tan , Yufei Yin , Gang Pan

Object detection is one of the most active areas in computer vision, which has made significant improvement in recent years. Current state-of-the-art object detection methods mostly adhere to the framework of regions with convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Wenqing Chu , Deng Cai

Camouflaged object detection and segmentation is a new and challenging research topic in computer vision. There is a serious issue of lacking data on concealed objects such as camouflaged animals in natural scenes. In this paper, we address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Thanh-Danh Nguyen , Anh-Khoa Nguyen Vu , Nhat-Duy Nguyen , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Thanh Duc Ngo , Thanh-Toan Do , Minh-Triet Tran , Tam V. Nguyen

Confidence-aware learning is proven as an effective solution to prevent networks becoming overconfident. We present a confidence-aware camouflaged object detection framework using dynamic supervision to produce both accurate camouflage map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Jiawei Liu , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

Camouflaged object detection is an emerging and challenging computer vision task that requires identifying and segmenting objects that blend seamlessly into their environments due to high similarity in color, texture, and size. This task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Leena Alghamdi , Muhammad Usman , Hafeez Anwar , Abdul Bais , Saeed Anwar

Discovering camouflaged objects is a challenging task in computer vision due to the high similarity between camouflaged objects and their surroundings. While the problem of camouflaged object detection over sequential video frames has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Siyuan Yao , Hao Sun , Ruiqi Yu , Xiwei Jiang , Wenqi Ren , Xiaochun Cao

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to distinguish hidden objects embedded in an environment highly similar to the object. Conventional video-based COD (VCOD) methods explicitly extract motion cues or employ complex deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xinyu Wang , Hong-Shuo Chen , Zhiruo Zhou , Suya You , Azad M. Madni , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Tiny object detection is one of the key challenges in the field of object detection. The performance of most generic detectors dramatically decreases in tiny object detection tasks. The main challenge lies in extracting effective features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Bing Cao , Haiyu Yao , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu

Fully supervised object detection has achieved great success in recent years. However, abundant bounding boxes annotations are needed for training a detector for novel classes. To reduce the human labeling effort, we propose a novel webly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Zhonghua Wu , Qingyi Tao , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai