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Aiming at discovering and locating most distinctive objects from visual scenes, salient object detection (SOD) plays an essential role in various computer vision systems. Coming to the era of high resolution, SOD methods are facing new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Lv Tang , Bo Li , Shouhong Ding , Mofei Song

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

Small object detection (SOD) in optical images and videos is a challenging problem that even state-of-the-art generic object detection methods fail to accurately localize and identify such objects. Typically, small objects appear in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Aref Miri Rekavandi , Lian Xu , Farid Boussaid , Abd-Krim Seghouane , Stephen Hoefs , Mohammed Bennamoun

Salient object detection (SOD) is viewed as a pixel-wise saliency modeling task by traditional deep learning-based methods. A limitation of current SOD models is insufficient utilization of inter-pixel information, which usually results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Ziyun Yang , Somayyeh Soltanian-Zadeh , Sina Farsiu

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

In this paper, we tackle the challenging task of unsupervised salient object detection (SOD) by leveraging spectral clustering on self-supervised features. We make the following contributions: (i) We revisit spectral clustering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Gyungin Shin , Samuel Albanie , Weidi Xie

Visual attention brings significant progress for Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) in various applications. In this paper, object-based attention in human visual cortex inspires us to introduce a mechanism for modification of activations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Saeed Masoudnia , Melika Kheirieh , Abdol-Hossein Vahabie , Babak Nadjar Araabi

The existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) video salient object detection (VSOD) models have widely followed short-term methodology, which dynamically determines the balance between spatial and temporal saliency fusion by solely considering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Chenglizhao Chen , Hengsen Wang , Yuming Fang , Chong Peng

Salient object detection is evaluated using binary ground truth with the labels being salient object class and background. In this paper, we corroborate based on three subjective experiments on a novel image dataset that objects in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Gökhan Yildirim , Debashis Sen , Mohan Kankanhalli , Sabine Süsstrunk

Co-Salient Object Detection (CoSOD) aims at simulating the human visual system to discover the common and salient objects from a group of relevant images. Recent methods typically develop sophisticated deep learning based models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Lv Tang , Bo Li

Recent Salient Object Detection (SOD) systems are mostly based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, Deeply Supervised Saliency (DSS) system has shown it is very useful to add short connections to the network and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Sen Jia , Neil D. B. Bruce

Toward desirable saliency prediction, the types and numbers of inputs for a salient object detection (SOD) algorithm may dynamically change in many real-life applications. However, existing SOD algorithms are mainly designed or trained for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Nianchang Huang , Yang Yang , Ruida Xi , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han , Jin Huang

The eye-tracking video saliency prediction (VSP) task and video salient object detection (VSOD) task both focus on the most attractive objects in video and show the result in the form of predictive heatmaps and pixel-level saliency masks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qi Qin , Runmin Cong , Gen Zhan , Yiting Liao , Sam Kwong

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

Video salient object detection (VSOD) is an important task in many vision applications. Reliable VSOD requires to simultaneously exploit the information from both the spatial domain and the temporal domain. Most of the existing algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Yi Tang , Yuanman Li , Guoliang Xing

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

The majority of current salient object detection (SOD) models are focused on designing a series of decoders based on fully convolutional networks (FCNs) or Transformer architectures and integrating them in a skillful manner. These models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Ailing Pan , Chao Dai , Chen Pan , Dongping Zhang , Yunchao Xu

Salient object detection is a prevalent computer vision task that has applications ranging from abnormality detection to abnormality processing. Context modelling is an important criterion in the domain of saliency detection. A global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Kitty Varghese , Sauradip Nag

We extensively compare, qualitatively and quantitatively, 40 state-of-the-art models (28 salient object detection, 10 fixation prediction, 1 objectness, and 1 baseline) over 6 challenging datasets for the purpose of benchmarking salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ali Borji , Ming-Ming Cheng , Huaizu Jiang , Jia Li

Video salient object detection aims to find the most visually distinctive objects in a video. To explore the temporal dependencies, existing methods usually resort to recurrent neural networks or optical flow. However, these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Yi-Wen Chen , Xiaojie Jin , Xiaohui Shen , Ming-Hsuan Yang