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Existing camouflaged object detection (COD) methods rely heavily on large-scale datasets with pixel-wise annotations. However, due to the ambiguous boundary, annotating camouflage objects pixel-wisely is very time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ruozhen He , Qihua Dong , Jiaying Lin , Rynson W. H. Lau

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

Camouflaged object detection (COD) is the challenging task of identifying camouflaged objects visually blended into surroundings. Albeit achieving remarkable success, existing COD detectors still struggle to obtain precise results in some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chunming He , Kai Li , Yachao Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu

The camouflaged object detection (COD) task aims to identify and segment objects that blend into the background due to their similar color or texture. Despite the inherent difficulties of the task, COD has gained considerable attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Chaewon Park , Dogyoon Lee , Jungho Lee , Sangyoun Lee

The task of Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to accurately segment camouflaged objects that integrated into the environment, which is more challenging than ordinary detection as the texture between the target and background is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yuxuan Song , Xinyue Li , Lin Qi

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

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

We consider the problem of referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD), a new task that aims to segment specified camouflaged objects based on a small set of referring images with salient target objects. We first assemble a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuying Zhang , Bowen Yin , Zheng Lin , Qibin Hou , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng

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

We propose a new video camouflaged object detection (VCOD) framework that can exploit both short-term dynamics and long-term temporal consistency to detect camouflaged objects from video frames. An essential property of camouflaged objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Xuelian Cheng , Huan Xiong , Deng-Ping Fan , Yiran Zhong , Mehrtash Harandi , Tom Drummond , Zongyuan Ge

Recent research about camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment highly concealed objects hidden in complex surroundings. The tiny, fuzzy camouflaged objects result in visually indistinguishable properties. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Dehua Zheng , Xiaochen Zheng , Laurence T. Yang , Yuan Gao , Chenlu Zhu , Yiheng Ruan

Camouflaged objects that blend into natural scenes pose significant challenges for deep-learning models to detect and synthesize. While camouflaged object detection is a crucial task in computer vision with diverse real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Haichao Zhang , Can Qin , Yu Yin , Yun Fu

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

Segment anything model (SAM) has shown impressive general-purpose segmentation performance on natural images, but its performance on camouflaged object detection (COD) is unsatisfactory. In this paper, we propose SAM-COD that performs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Jiaming Liu , Linghe Kong , Guihai Chen

The burgeoning field of camouflaged object detection (COD) seeks to identify objects that blend into their surroundings. Despite the impressive performance of recent models, we have identified a limitation in their robustness, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Xue-Jing Luo , Shuo Wang , Zongwei Wu , Christos Sakaridis , Yun Cheng , Deng-Ping Fan , Luc Van Gool

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Video camouflaged object detection (VCOD) is challenging due to dynamic environments. Existing methods face two main issues: (1) SAM-based methods struggle to separate camouflaged object edges due to model freezing, and (2) MLLM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Hua Zhang , Changjiang Luo , Ruoyu Chen

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to identify targets that are highly blended with their backgrounds. Recent works have shown that the optical characteristics of polarization cues play a significant role in improving camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 QIfan Zhang , Hao Wang , Xiangrong Qin , Ruijie Li

Visual salient object detection (SOD) aims at finding the salient object(s) that attract human attention, while camouflaged object detection (COD) on the contrary intends to discover the camouflaged object(s) that hidden in the surrounding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Aixuan Li , Jing Zhang , Yunqiu Lv , Bowen Liu , Tong Zhang , Yuchao Dai

Video Camouflaged Object Detection (VCOD) aims to segment objects whose appearances closely resemble their surroundings, posing a challenging and emerging task. Existing vision models often struggle in such scenarios due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yuang Feng , Shuyong Gao , Fuzhen Yan , Yicheng Song , Lingyi Hong , Junjie Hu , Wenqiang Zhang