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SalienDet: A Saliency-based Feature Enhancement Algorithm for Object Detection for Autonomous Driving

arXiv 2305.06940 ↗First posted 11 May 2023cs.CVcited by 8

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Abstract (arXiv)

Object detection (OD) is crucial to autonomous driving. On the other hand, unknown objects, which have not been seen in training sample set, are one of the reasons that hinder autonomous vehicles from driving beyond the operational domain. To addresss this issue, we propose a saliency-based OD algorithm (SalienDet) to detect unknown objects. Our SalienDet utilizes a saliency-based algorithm to enhance image features for object proposal generation. Moreover, we design a dataset relabeling approach to differentiate the unknown objects from all objects in training sample set to achieve Open-World Detection. To validate the performance of SalienDet, we evaluate SalienDet on KITTI, nuScenes, and BDD datasets, and the result indicates that it outperforms existing algorithms for unknown object detection. Notably, SalienDet can be easily adapted for incremental learning in open-world detection tasks. The project page is urlhttps://github.com/dingmike001/SalienDet-Open-Detection.git.

Key facts. Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 41 of its 69 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 11 May 2023.

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Citing papers per year: 2024: 4; 2025: 2; 2026: 2.

8 papers.

  1. 2024Delving into Multi-modal Multi-task Foundation Models for Road Scene Understanding: From Learning Paradigm Perspectivescited by 23
  2. 2024Advancing Chart Question Answering with Robust Chart Component Recognitioncited by 5
  3. 2024Image-Guided Outdoor LiDAR Perception Quality Assessment for Autonomous Drivingcited by 3
  4. 2024Guiding Attention in End-to-End Driving Modelscited by 1
  5. 2025Evaluating Scenario-based Decision-making for Interactive Autonomous Driving Using Rational Criteria: A Surveycited by 1
  6. 2025DriverGaze360: OmniDirectional Driver Attention with Object-Level Guidancecited by 1
  7. 2026Revisiting Salient Object Detection from an Observer-Centric Perspectivecited by 0
  8. 2026Liquid Fusion of Heterogeneous Representations Towards General Salient Object Detectioncited by 0