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As an essential problem in computer vision, salient object detection (SOD) has attracted an increasing amount of research attention over the years. Recent advances in SOD are predominantly led by deep learning-based solutions (named deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Wenguan Wang , Qiuxia Lai , Huazhu Fu , Jianbing Shen , Haibin Ling , Ruigang Yang

Fully-supervised salient object detection (SOD) methods have made great progress, but such methods often rely on a large number of pixel-level annotations, which are time-consuming and labour-intensive. In this paper, we focus on a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Runmin Cong , Qi Qin , Chen Zhang , Qiuping Jiang , Shiqi Wang , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

Transformer-based methods for RGB-D Salient Object Detection (SOD) have gained significant interest, owing to the transformer's exceptional capacity to capture long-range pixel dependencies. Nevertheless, current RGB-D SOD methods face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jianlin Chen , Gongyang Li , Zhijiang Zhang , Liang Chang , Dan Zeng

RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) is usually formulated as a problem of classification or regression over two modalities, i.e., RGB and depth. Hence, effective RGBD feature modeling and multi-modal feature fusion both play a vital role…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Peng Sun , Wenhu Zhang , Huanyu Wang , Songyuan Li , Xi Li

Salient object detection (SOD) remains an important task in computer vision, with applications ranging from image segmentation to autonomous driving. Fully convolutional network (FCN)-based methods have made remarkable progress in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Kassaw Abraham Mulat , Zhengyong Feng , Tegegne Solomon Eshetie , Ahmed Endris Hasen

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

Recent RGBD-based models for saliency detection have attracted research attention. The depth clues such as boundary clues, surface normal, shape attribute, etc., contribute to the identification of salient objects with complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zongwei Wu , Guillaume Allibert , Christophe Stolz , Chao Ma , Cédric Demonceaux

Developing a new Salient Object Detection (SOD) model involves selecting an ImageNet pre-trained backbone and creating novel feature refinement modules to use backbone features. However, adding new components to a pre-trained backbone needs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Rohit Venkata Sai Dulam , Chandra Kambhamettu

Salient object detection plays an important role in many downstream tasks. However, complex real-world scenes with varying scales and numbers of salient objects still pose a challenge. In this paper, we directly address the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Bowen Deng , Andrew P. French , Michael P. Pound

Salient object detection (SOD) is a long-standing research topic in computer vision and has drawn an increasing amount of research interest in the past decade. This paper provides the first comprehensive review and benchmark for light field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Keren Fu , Yao Jiang , Ge-Peng Ji , Tao Zhou , Qijun Zhao , Deng-Ping Fan

Existing salient object detection methods often adopt deeper and wider networks for better performance, resulting in heavy computational burden and slow inference speed. This inspires us to rethink saliency detection to achieve a favorable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jia Li , Shengye Qiao , Zhirui Zhao , Chenxi Xie , Xiaowu Chen , Changqun Xia

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

Salient object detection (SOD) on RGB and depth images has attracted more and more research interests, due to its effectiveness and the fact that depth cues can now be conveniently captured. Existing RGB-D SOD models usually adopt different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Tao Zhou , Deng-Ping Fan , Geng Chen , Yi Zhou , Huazhu Fu

Depth cues with affluent spatial information have been proven beneficial in boosting salient object detection (SOD), while the depth quality directly affects the subsequent SOD performance. However, it is inevitable to obtain some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Zhou Huang , Huai-Xin Chen , Tao Zhou , Yun-Zhi Yang , Bi-Yuan Liu

Salient object detection (SOD) is a fundamental computer vision task. Recently, with the revival of deep neural networks, SOD has made great progresses. However, there still exist two thorny issues that cannot be well addressed by existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Lv Tang , Bo Li

Salient Object Detection (SOD) plays a crucial role in many computer vision applications, requiring accurate localization and precise boundary delineation of salient regions. In this work, we present a novel framework that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abhinav Sagar

Salient object detection (SOD) for optical remote sensing images (RSIs) aims at locating and extracting visually distinctive objects/regions from the optical RSIs. Despite some saliency models were proposed to solve the intrinsic problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Runmin Cong , Yumo Zhang , Leyuan Fang , Jun Li , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

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

Salient object detection (SOD) aims to identify the most attractive objects within an image. Depending on the type of data being detected, SOD can be categorized into various forms, including RGB, RGB-D (Depth), RGB-T (Thermal) and light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xingzhao Jia , Zhongqiu Zhao , Changlei Dongye , Zhao Zhang

Due to the extreme complexity of scale and shape as well as the uncertainty of the predicted location, salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (RSI-SOD) is a very difficult task. The existing SOD methods can satisfy the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yuhan Lin , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu , Yetong Bian , Jun Cen , Huiyu Zhou