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Camouflaged object detection is an emerging and challenging computer vision task that requires identifying and segmenting objects that blend seamlessly into their environments due to high similarity in color, texture, and size. This task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Leena Alghamdi , Muhammad Usman , Hafeez Anwar , Abdul Bais , Saeed Anwar

Camouflaged object detection (COD) approaches heavily rely on pixel-level annotated datasets. Weakly-supervised COD (WSCOD) approaches use sparse annotations like scribbles or points to reduce annotation effort, but this can lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jian Hu , Jiayi Lin , Weitong Cai , Shaogang Gong

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) is a challenging task in computer vision due to the high similarity between camouflaged objects and their surroundings. Existing COD methods primarily employ semantic segmentation, which suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Zhongxi Chen , Ke Sun , Xianming Lin , Rongrong Ji

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment camouflaged objects hiding in the environment, which is challenging due to the similar appearance of camouflaged objects and their surroundings. Research in biology suggests depth can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Mochu Xiang , Jing Zhang , Yunqiu Lv , Aixuan Li , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai

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

Camouflaged object detection segments objects with intrinsic similarity and edge disruption. Current detection methods rely on accumulated complex components. Each approach adds components such as boundary modules, attention mechanisms, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Baber Jan , Saeed Anwar , Aiman H. El-Maleh , Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui , Abdul Bais

Existing edge-aware camouflaged object detection (COD) methods normally output the edge prediction in the early stage. However, edges are important and fundamental factors in the following segmentation task. Due to the high visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Dongyue Sun , Shiyao Jiang , Lin Qi

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

Weakly-Supervised Camouflaged Object Detection (WSCOD) has gained popularity for its promise to train models with weak labels to segment objects that visually blend into their surroundings. Recently, some methods using sparsely-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Tsui Qin Mok , Shuyong Gao , Haozhe Xing , Miaoyang He , Yan Wang , Wenqiang Zhang

To fully exploit depth cues in Camouflaged Object Detection (COD), we present DGA-Net, a specialized framework that adapts the Segment Anything Model (SAM) via a novel ``depth prompting" paradigm. Distinguished from existing approaches that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yuetong Li , Qing Zhang , Yilin Zhao , Gongyang Li , Zeming Liu

Concealed object detection (COD) in cluttered scenes is significant for various image processing applications. However, due to that concealed objects are always similar to their background, it is extremely hard to distinguish them. Here,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuhan Kang , Qingpeng Li , Leyuan Fang , Jian Zhao , Xuelong Li

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Camouflaged objects are seamlessly blended in with their surroundings, which brings a challenging detection task in computer vision. Optimizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) for camouflaged object detection (COD) tends to activate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Wei Sun , Chengao Liu , Linyan Zhang , Yu Li , Pengxu Wei , Chang Liu , Jialing Zou , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

Recently, biological perception has been a powerful tool for handling the camouflaged object detection (COD) task. However, most existing methods are heavily dependent on the local spatial information of diverse scales from convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Yanguang Sun , Hanyu Xuan , Jian Yang , Lei Luo

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) demands models to expeditiously and accurately distinguish objects which conceal themselves seamlessly in the environment. Owing to the subtle differences and ambiguous boundaries, COD is not only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Huafeng Chen , Dian Shao , Guangqian Guo , Shan Gao

Visually detecting camouflaged objects is a hard problem for both humans and computer vision algorithms. Strong similarities between object and background appearance make the task significantly more challenging than traditional object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Matthias Pijarowski , Alexander Wolpert , Martin Heckmann , Michael Teutsch

Camouflaged object detection (COD) primarily focuses on learning subtle yet discriminative representations from complex scenes. Existing methods predominantly follow the parametric feedforward architecture based on static visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Chenxi Zhang , Jiayun Wu , Qing Zhang , Yazhe Zhai , Youwei Pang

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

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

Current zero-shot Camouflaged Object Segmentation methods typically employ a two-stage pipeline (discover-then-segment): using MLLMs to obtain visual prompts, followed by SAM segmentation. However, relying solely on MLLMs for camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yilong Yang , Jianxin Tian , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao