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 …

Visual saliency transformer

N Liu, N Zhang, K Wan, L Shao… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Existing state-of-the-art saliency detection methods heavily rely on CNN-based
architectures. Alternatively, we rethink this task from a convolution-free sequence-to …

A simple pooling-based design for real-time salient object detection

JJ Liu, Q Hou, MM Cheng, J Feng… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We solve the problem of salient object detection by investigating how to expand the role of
pooling in convolutional neural networks. Based on the U-shape architecture, we first build a …

Label decoupling framework for salient object detection

J Wei, S Wang, Z Wu, C Su… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
To get more accurate saliency maps, recent methods mainly focus on aggregating multi-
level features from fully convolutional network (FCN) and introducing edge information as …

Deeply supervised salient object detection with short connections

Q Hou, MM Cheng, X Hu, A Borji… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recent progress on saliency detection is substantial, benefiting mostly from the explosive
development of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Semantic segmentation and …

A stagewise refinement model for detecting salient objects in images

T Wang, A Borji, L Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied to a wide
variety of problems in computer vision, including salient object detection. To detect and …

Salicon: Reducing the semantic gap in saliency prediction by adapting deep neural networks

X Huang, C Shen, X Boix… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2015 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Saliency in Context (SALICON) is an ongoing effort that aims at understanding and
predicting visual attention. Conventional saliency models typically rely on low-level image …

Review of visual saliency prediction: Development process from neurobiological basis to deep models

F Yan, C Chen, P Xiao, S Qi, Z Wang, R Xiao - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The human attention mechanism can be understood and simulated by closely associating
the saliency prediction task to neuroscience and psychology. Furthermore, saliency …

How to evaluate foreground maps?

R Margolin, L Zelnik-Manor… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2014 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The output of many algorithms in computer-vision is either non-binary maps or binary maps
(eg, salient object detection and object segmentation). Several measures have been …

RGBD salient object detection: A benchmark and algorithms

H Peng, B Li, W Xiong, W Hu, R Ji - … 6-12, 2014, Proceedings, Part III 13, 2014 - Springer
Although depth information plays an important role in the human vision system, it is not yet
well-explored in existing visual saliency computational models. In this work, we first …