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Salient Object Detection: A Survey

arXiv 1411.5878 ↗First posted 18 Nov 2014cs.CV cs.AI q-bio.NCcited by 98

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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 been proposed and several applications have emerged, a deep understanding of achievements and issues remains lacking. We aim to provide a comprehensive review of recent progress in salient object detection and situate this field among other closely related areas such as generic scene segmentation, object proposal generation, and saliency for fixation prediction. Covering 228 publications, we survey i) roots, key concepts, and tasks, ii) core techniques and main modeling trends, and iii) datasets and evaluation metrics for salient object detection. We also discuss open problems such as evaluation metrics and dataset bias in model performance, and suggest future research directions.

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  1. 2023Fast Segment Anythingcited by 286
  2. 2021Concealed Object Detectioncited by 212
  3. 2023EfficientSAM: Leveraged Masked Image Pretraining for Efficient Segment Anythingcited by 187
  4. 2021Salient Object Detection via Integrity Learningcited by 133
  5. 2023Segment Anything Is Not Always Perfect: An Investigation of SAM on Different Real-world Applicationscited by 121
  6. 2021A Survey of Modern Deep Learning based Object Detection Modelscited by 97
  7. 2021Full-Duplex Strategy for Video Object Segmentationcited by 78
  8. 2021Open-World Entity Segmentationcited by 74
  9. 2024Convolution Meets LoRA: Parameter Efficient Finetuning for Segment Anything Modelcited by 67
  10. 2022Unsupervised Object Localization: Observing the Background to Discover Objectscited by 66
  11. 2022Pyramid Grafting Network for One-Stage High Resolution Saliency Detectioncited by 63
  12. 2023ZoomNeXt: A Unified Collaborative Pyramid Network for Camouflaged Object Detectioncited by 48
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  1. 2021CAVER: Cross-Modal View-Mixed Transformer for Bi-Modal Salient Object Detectioncited by 47
  2. 2023Advances in Deep Concealed Scene Understandingcited by 47
  3. 2021A comprehensive review of Binary Neural Networkcited by 44
  4. 2022CIR-Net: Cross-modality Interaction and Refinement for RGB-D Salient Object Detectioncited by 38
  5. 2021Disentangled High Quality Salient Object Detectioncited by 35
  6. 2023HiDAnet: RGB-D Salient Object Detection via Hierarchical Depth Awarenesscited by 31
  7. 2021PP-LCNet: A Lightweight CPU Convolutional Neural Networkcited by 27
  8. 2023Object Detection with Transformers: A Reviewcited by 22
  9. 2022Adjacent Context Coordination Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Imagescited by 21
  10. 2023SGDViT: Saliency-Guided Dynamic Vision Transformer for UAV Trackingcited by 20
  11. 2021Salient Objects in Cluttercited by 19
  12. 2023Recurrent Multi-scale Transformer for High-Resolution Salient Object Detectioncited by 15
  13. 2024BA-SAM: Scalable Bias-Mode Attention Mask for Segment Anything Modelcited by 15
  14. 2021Progressive Self-Guided Loss for Salient Object Detectioncited by 14
  15. 2022Rectify ViT Shortcut Learning by Visual Saliencycited by 14
  16. 2024Size-invariance Matters: Rethinking Metrics and Losses for Imbalanced Multi-object Salient Object Detectioncited by 13
  17. 2022Robust RGB-D Fusion for Saliency Detectioncited by 12
  18. 2023Deep Image Matting: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 12
  19. 2021Unifying Global-Local Representations in Salient Object Detection with Transformercited by 11
  20. 2022GCoNet+: A Stronger Group Collaborative Co-Salient Object Detectorcited by 11
  21. 2025RPCANet++: Deep Interpretable Robust PCA for Sparse Object Segmentationcited by 11
  22. 2023Co-Salient Object Detection with Co-Representation Purificationcited by 9
  23. 2023Spectrum-driven Mixed-frequency Network for Hyperspectral Salient Object Detectioncited by 9
  24. 2025Rapid Salient Object Detection with Difference Convolutional Neural Networkscited by 9
  25. 2021UPANets: Learning from the Universal Pixel Attention Networkscited by 7
  26. 2022Scribble-based Boundary-aware Network for Weakly Supervised Salient Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagescited by 7
  27. 2023Salient Object Detection for Images Taken by People With Vision Impairmentscited by 7
  28. 2023Adaptive Low Rank Adaptation of Segment Anything to Salient Object Detectioncited by 7
  29. 2025Multispectral State-Space Feature Fusion: Bridging Shared and Cross-Parametric Interactions for Object Detectioncited by 6
  30. 2021Deep Learning for Robust Motion Segmentation with Non-Static Camerascited by 5
  31. 2021Middle-level Fusion for Lightweight RGB-D Salient Object Detectioncited by 5
  32. 2022Towards Complex Backgrounds: A Unified Difference-Aware Decoder for Binary Segmentationcited by 5
  33. 2023Rethinking Lightweight Salient Object Detection via Network Depth-Width Tradeoffcited by 5
  34. 2021SHD360: A Benchmark Dataset for Salient Human Detection in 360deg Videoscited by 4
  35. 2021Bridging Gap between Image Pixels and Semantics via Supervision: A Surveycited by 4
  36. 2022A lightweight multi-scale context network for salient object detection in optical remote sensing imagescited by 4
  37. 2022Towards Stable Co-saliency Detection and Object Co-segmentationcited by 4
  38. 2023SEMPART: Self-supervised Multi-resolution Partitioning of Image Semanticscited by 4

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