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Co-salient object detection (Co-SOD) aims to identify common salient objects across a group of related images. While recent methods have made notable progress, they typically rely on low-level visual patterns and lack semantic priors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jiayi Zhu , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yihao Huang , Yang Liu , Geguang Pu

Salient object detection (SOD), which aims to find the most important region of interest and segment the relevant object/item in that area, is an important yet challenging vision task. This problem is inspired by the fact that human seems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Pingping Zhang , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

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

In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive study on the co-salient object detection (CoSOD) problem for images. CoSOD is an emerging and rapidly growing extension of salient object detection (SOD), which aims to detect the co-occurring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Deng-Ping Fan , Tengpeng Li , Zheng Lin , Ge-Peng Ji , Dingwen Zhang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Huazhu Fu , Jianbing Shen

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) aims to identify and segment prominent regions within a scene. Traditional models rely on manually annotated pseudo labels with precise pixel-level accuracy, which is time-consuming. We developed a low-cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Miaoyang He , Shuyong Gao , Tsui Qin Mok , Weifeng Ge , Wengqiang Zhang

Exploring to what humans pay attention in dynamic panoramic scenes is useful for many fundamental applications, including augmented reality (AR) in retail, AR-powered recruitment, and visual language navigation. With this goal in mind, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Yi Zhang

Optical Remote Sensing Image Salient Object Detection (ORSI-SOD) remains challenging due to complex backgrounds, low contrast, irregular object shapes, and large variations in object scale. Existing discriminative methods directly regress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Haojing Chen , Zhihang Liu , Yutong Li , Tao Tan , Haoyu Bian , Qiuju Ma

Salient object detection is subjective in nature, which implies that multiple estimations should be related to the same input image. Most existing salient object detection models are deterministic following a point to point estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xinyu Tian , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai

In recent years, deep network-based methods have continuously refreshed state-of-the-art performance on Salient Object Detection (SOD) task. However, the performance discrepancy caused by different implementation details may conceal the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Huajun Zhou , Yang Lin , Lingxiao Yang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie

We introduce pluralistic salient object detection (PSOD), a novel task aimed at generating multiple plausible salient segmentation results for a given input image. Unlike conventional SOD methods that produce a single segmentation mask for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xuelu Feng , Yunsheng Li , Dongdong Chen , Chunming Qiao , Junsong Yuan , Lu Yuan , Gang Hua

Salient object detection is the task of producing a binary mask for an image that deciphers which pixels belong to the foreground object versus background. We introduce a new salient object detection dataset using images taken by people who…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Jarek Reynolds , Chandra Kanth Nagesh , Danna Gurari

While we enjoy the richness and informativeness of multimodal data, it also introduces interference and redundancy of information. To achieve optimal domain interpretation with limited resources, we propose CSDNet, a lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xiaotong Yu , Ruihan Xie , Zhihe Zhao , Chang-Wen Chen

The objective of hyperspectral remote sensing image salient object detection (HRSI-SOD) is to identify objects or regions that exhibit distinct spectrum contrasts with the background. This area holds significant promise for practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Peifu Liu , Huiyan Bai , Tingfa Xu , Jihui Wang , Huan Chen , Jianan Li

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

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

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) 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 is a problem that has been considered in detail and many solutions proposed. In this paper, we argue that work to date has addressed a problem that is relatively ill-posed. Specifically, there is not universal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Md Amirul Islam , Mahmoud Kalash , Neil D. B. Bruce

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