Salient object detection: A survey

A Borji, MM Cheng, Q Hou, H Jiang, J Li - Computational visual media, 2019 - Springer
Detecting and segmenting salient objects from natural scenes, often referred to as salient
object detection, has attracted great interest in computer vision. While many models have …

Advances in deep concealed scene understanding

DP Fan, GP Ji, P Xu, MM Cheng, C Sakaridis… - Visual Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
Concealed scene understanding (CSU) is a hot computer vision topic aiming to perceive
objects exhibiting camouflage. The current boom in terms of techniques and applications …

Salient object detection in the deep learning era: An in-depth survey

W Wang, Q Lai, H Fu, J Shen, H Ling… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Reverse attention for salient object detection

S Chen, X Tan, B Wang, X Hu - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Benefit from the quick development of deep learning techniques, salient object detection has
achieved remarkable progresses recently. However, there still exists following two major …

Poolnet+: Exploring the potential of pooling for salient object detection

JJ Liu, Q Hou, ZA Liu, MM Cheng - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We explore the potential of pooling techniques on the task of salient object detection by
expanding its role in convolutional neural networks. In general, two pooling-based modules …

Salient object detection techniques in computer vision—A survey

AK Gupta, A Seal, M Prasad, P Khanna - Entropy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Detection and localization of regions of images that attract immediate human visual attention
is currently an intensive area of research in computer vision. The capability of automatic …

Referring camouflaged object detection

X Zhang, B Yin, Z Lin, Q Hou, DP Fan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD), a new task
that aims to segment specified camouflaged objects based on a small set of referring images …

A brief survey of visual saliency detection

I Ullah, M Jian, S Hussain, J Guo, H Yu, X Wang… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2020 - Springer
Salient object detection models mimic the behavior of human beings and capture the most
salient region/object from the images or scenes, this field contains many important …

Deep salient object detection with contextual information guidance

Y Liu, J Han, Q Zhang, C Shan - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integration of multi-level contextual information, such as feature maps and side outputs, is
crucial for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)-based salient object detection. However …

Saliency detection via absorbing Markov chain with learnt transition probability

L Zhang, J Ai, B Jiang, H Lu, X Li - IEEE Transactions on image …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a bottom-up saliency model based on absorbing Markov chain
(AMC). First, a sparsely connected graph is constructed to capture the local context …