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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are good at extracting contexture features within certain receptive fields, while transformers can model the global long-range dependency features. By absorbing the advantage of transformer and the merit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Zhengyi Liu , Yacheng Tan , Qian He , Yun Xiao

Much of the recent efforts on salient object detection (SOD) have been devoted to producing accurate saliency maps without being aware of their instance labels. To this end, we propose a new pipeline for end-to-end salient instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Yu-Huan Wu , Yun Liu , Le Zhang , Wang Gao , Ming-Ming Cheng

Effective fusion of different types of features is the key to salient object detection. The majority of existing network structure design is based on the subjective experience of scholars and the process of feature fusion does not consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Jinchao Zhu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Xian Fang , Feng Dong , Li Yuehua , Junnan Liu

Albeit intensively studied, false prediction and unclear boundaries are still major issues of salient object detection. In this paper, we propose a Region Refinement Network (RRN), which recurrently filters redundant information and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Zhuotao Tian , Hengshuang Zhao , Michelle Shu , Jiaze Wang , Ruiyu Li , Xiaoyong Shen , Jiaya Jia

Saliency detection aims to detect the most attractive objects in images and is widely used as a foundation for various applications. In this paper, we propose a novel salient object detection algorithm for RGB-D images using center-dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Chunbiao Zhu , Wenhao Zhang , Thomas H. Li , Ge 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

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

Fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) have shown their advantages in the salient object detection task. However, most existing FCNs-based methods still suffer from coarse object boundaries. In this paper, to solve this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Jia-Xing Zhao , Jiangjiang Liu , Den-Ping Fan , Yang Cao , Jufeng Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng

Bottom-up and top-down visual cues are two types of information that helps the visual saliency models. These salient cues can be from spatial distributions of the features (space-based saliency) or contextual / task-dependent features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Nevrez Imamoglu , Wataru Shimoda , Chi Zhang , Yuming Fang , Asako Kanezaki , Keiji Yanai , Yoshifumi Nishida

For the video salient object detection (VSOD) task, how to excavate the information from the appearance modality and the motion modality has always been a topic of great concern. The two-stream structure, including an RGB appearance stream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Runmin Cong , Weiyu Song , Jianjun Lei , Guanghui Yue , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

Fully convolutional networks have shown outstanding performance in the salient object detection (SOD) field. The state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods have a tendency to become deeper and more complex, which easily homogenize their learned deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

This paper proposes a novel joint learning and densely-cooperative fusion (JL-DCF) architecture for RGB-D salient object detection. Existing models usually treat RGB and depth as independent information and design separate networks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Keren Fu , Deng-Ping Fan , Ge-Peng Ji , Qijun Zhao

The purpose of RGB-D Salient Object Detection (SOD) is to pinpoint the most visually conspicuous areas within images accurately. While conventional deep models heavily rely on CNN extractors and overlook the long-range contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yue Zhan , Zhihong Zeng , Haijun Liu , Xiaoheng Tan , Yinli Tian

Deep convolutional neural networks have become a key element in the recent breakthrough of salient object detection. However, existing CNN-based methods are based on either patch-wise (region-wise) training and inference or fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) recently has attracted increasing research interest by benefiting conventional RGB SOD with extra depth information. However, existing RGB-D SOD models often fail to perform well in terms of both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Wenbo Zhang , Ge-Peng Ji , Zhuo Wang , Keren Fu , Qijun Zhao

Existing RGB-T salient object detection methods predominantly rely on manually aligned and annotated datasets, struggling to handle real-world scenarios with raw, unaligned RGB-T image pairs. In practical applications, due to significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Lupiao Hu , Fasheng Wang , Fangmei Chen , Fuming Sun , Haojie Li

Recently, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have demonstrated strong performance on RGB salient object detection. Although, depth information can help improve detection results, the exploration of CNNs for RGB-D salient object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Riku Shigematsu , David Feng , Shaodi You , Nick Barnes

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

In remote sensing images, complex backgrounds, weak object signals, and small object scales make accurate detection particularly challenging, especially under low-quality imaging conditions. A common strategy is to integrate single-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ruo Qi , Linhui Dai , Yusong Qin , Chaolei Yang , Yanshan Li

This paper addresses the challenge of deploying salient object detection (SOD) on resource-constrained devices with real-time performance. While recent advances in deep neural networks have improved SOD, existing top-leading models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhuo Su , Li Liu , Matthias Müller , Jiehua Zhang , Diana Wofk , Ming-Ming Cheng , Matti Pietikäinen