English
Related papers

Related papers: Distribution-Specific Learning for Joint Salient a…

200 papers

We present a simple yet effective progressive self-guided loss function to facilitate deep learning-based salient object detection (SOD) in images. The saliency maps produced by the most relevant works still suffer from incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sheng Yang , Weisi Lin , Guosheng Lin , Qiuping Jiang , Zichuan Liu

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to segment objects that blend seamlessly into complex backgrounds, with growing interest in exploiting additional visual modalities to enhance robustness through complementary information. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hao Wang , Jiqing Zhang , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Lu Jiang , Zetian Mi , Huibing Wang

Though deep learning techniques have made great progress in salient object detection recently, the predicted saliency maps still suffer from incomplete predictions due to the internal complexity of objects and inaccurate boundaries caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Runmin Wu , Mengyang Feng , Wenlong Guan , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Errui Ding

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment objects visually embedded in their surroundings, which is a very challenging task due to the high similarity between the objects and the background. To address it, most methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhennan Chen , Xuying Zhang , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Ying Tai

Recently, unsupervised salient object detection (USOD) has gained increasing attention due to its annotation-free nature. However, current methods mainly focus on specific tasks such as RGB and RGB-D, neglecting the potential for task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Yao Yuan , Wutao Liu , Pan Gao , Qun Dai , Jie Qin

Existing salient object detection (SOD) methods mainly rely on U-shaped convolution neural networks (CNNs) with skip connections to combine the global contexts and local spatial details that are crucial for locating salient objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yu Qiu , Yun Liu , Le Zhang , Jing Xu

Camouflage is a key defence mechanism across species that is critical to survival. Common strategies for camouflage include background matching, imitating the color and pattern of the environment, and disruptive coloration, disguising body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yunqiu Lv , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Aixuan Li , Bowen Liu , Nick Barnes , Deng-Ping Fan

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

Super Resolution (SR) and Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) are two hot topics in computer vision with various joint applications. For instance, low-resolution surveillance images can be successively processed by super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Juan Wen , Shupeng Cheng , Peng Xu , Bowen Zhou , Radu Timofte , Weiyan Hou , Luc Van Gool

Underwater degraded images greatly challenge existing algorithms to detect objects of interest. Recently, researchers attempt to adopt attention mechanisms or composite connections for improving the feature representation of detectors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Chenping Fu , Wanqi Yuan , Jiewen Xiao , Risheng Liu , Xin Fan

RGB-Thermal salient object detection (SOD) combines two spectra to segment visually conspicuous regions in images. Most existing methods use boundary maps to learn the sharp boundary. These methods ignore the interactions between isolated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Heng Zhou , Chunna Tian , Zhenxi Zhang , Chengyang Li , Yuxuan Ding , Yongqiang Xie , Zhongbo Li

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

Salient object detection (SOD) has achieved substantial progress in recent years. In practical scenarios, compressed images (CI) serve as the primary medium for data transmission and storage. However, scant attention has been directed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Guibiao Liao , Wei Gao

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) stands as a significant challenge in computer vision, dedicated to identifying and segmenting objects visually highly integrated with their backgrounds. Current mainstream methods have made progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Kuan Wang , Yanjun Qin , Mengge Lu , Liejun Wang , Xiaoming Tao

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

This paper investigates how to extract objects-of-interest without relying on hand-craft features and sliding windows approaches, that aims to jointly solve two sub-tasks: (i) rapidly localizing salient objects from images, and (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Xiaolong Wang , Liliang Zhang , Liang Lin , Zhujin Liang , Wangmeng Zuo

Video salient object detection aims at discovering the most visually distinctive objects in a video. How to effectively take object motion into consideration during video salient object detection is a critical issue. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Haofeng Li , Guanqi Chen , Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

In this paper, we present a novel end-to-end group collaborative learning network, termed GCoNet+, which can effectively and efficiently (250 fps) identify co-salient objects in natural scenes. The proposed GCoNet+ achieves the new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Peng Zheng , Huazhu Fu , Deng-Ping Fan , Qi Fan , Jie Qin , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Luc Van Gool

Salient object detection is inherently a subjective problem, as observers with different priors may perceive different objects as salient. However, existing methods predominantly formulate it as an objective prediction task with a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Fuxi Zhang , Yifan Wang , Hengrun Zhao , Zhuohan Sun , Changxing Xia , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu , Yangrui Shao , Chen Yang , Long Teng

Existing weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods usually utilize the results of pre-trained saliency detection (SD) models without explicitly modeling the connections between the two tasks, which is not the most efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Yu Zeng , Yunzhi Zhuge , Huchuan Lu , Lihe Zhang