# CONDA: Condensed Deep Association Learning for Co-Salient Object Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01021 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.01021/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 35 of its 52 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 2 Sep 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 35)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1405.0312/) (2014)
- [Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.1556/) (2014)
- [Feature Pyramid Networks for Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.03144/) (2016)
- [Structure-measure: A New Way to Evaluate Foreground Maps](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1708.00786/) (2017)
- [Enhanced-alignment Measure for Binary Foreground Map Evaluation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.10421/) (2018)
- [EGNet:Edge Guidance Network for Salient Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.08297/) (2019)
- [A Simple Pooling-Based Design for Real-Time Salient Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.09569/) (2019)
- [Hypercorrelation Squeeze for Few-Shot Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.01538/) (2021)
- [Iterative Geometry Encoding Volume for Stereo Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.06615/) (2023)
- [Visual Saliency Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.12099/) (2021)
- [Salient Object Detection via Integrity Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.07663/) (2021)
- [Cost Aggregation with 4D Convolutional Swin Transformer for Few-Shot Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.10866/) (2022)
- [VideoFlow: Exploiting Temporal Cues for Multi-frame Optical Flow Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.08340/) (2023)
- [VSCode: General Visual Salient and Camouflaged Object Detection with 2D Prompt Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.15011/) (2023)
- [Re-thinking Co-Salient Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.03380/) (2020)
- [A Unified Transformer Framework for Group-based Segmentation: Co-Segmentation, Co-Saliency Detection and Video Salient Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.04708/) (2022)
- [RANSAC-Flow: generic two-stage image alignment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.01526/) (2020)
- [Warp Consistency for Unsupervised Learning of Dense Correspondences](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.03308/) (2021)
- [Gradient-Induced Co-Saliency Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.13364/) (2020)
- [Intermediate Prototype Mining Transformer for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.06780/) (2022)
- [Group Collaborative Learning for Co-Salient Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.01108/) (2021)
- [Multi-scale Matching Networks for Semantic Correspondence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.00211/) (2021)
- [Neural Matching Fields: Implicit Representation of Matching Fields for Visual Correspondence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.02689/) (2022)
- [TransforMatcher: Match-to-Match Attention for Semantic Correspondence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.11634/) (2022)
- [Weakly Supervised Video Salient Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.02391/) (2021)
- [VST++: Efficient and Stronger Visual Saliency Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.11725/) (2023)
- [Mining Relations among Cross-Frame Affinities for Video Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.10436/) (2022)
- [Summarize and Search: Learning Consensus-aware Dynamic Convolution for Co-Saliency Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.00338/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Visual Consensus Prompting for Co-Salient Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.14254/) (2025)
- [TF-SSD: A Strong Pipeline via Synergic Mask Filter for Training-free Co-salient Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.00549/) (2026)
- [Semantic Manipulation Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.10132/) (2026)
- [Rank-Consistent Set Reasoning for Co-Salient Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.13706/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Inter-image association modeling is crucial for co-salient object detection. Despite satisfactory performance, previous methods still have limitations on sufficient inter-image association modeling. Because most of them focus on image feature optimization under the guidance of heuristically calculated raw inter-image associations. They directly rely on raw associations which are not reliable in complex scenarios, and their image feature optimization approach is not explicit for inter-image association modeling. To alleviate these limitations, this paper proposes a deep association learning strategy that deploys deep networks on raw associations to explicitly transform them into deep association features. Specifically, we first create hyperassociations to collect dense pixel-pair-wise raw associations and then deploys deep aggregation networks on them. We design a progressive association generation module for this purpose with additional enhancement of the hyperassociation calculation. More importantly, we propose a correspondence-induced association condensation module that introduces a pretext task, i.e. semantic correspondence estimation, to condense the hyperassociations for computational burden reduction and noise elimination. We also design an object-aware cycle consistency loss for high-quality correspondence estimations. Experimental results in three benchmark datasets demonstrate the remarkable effectiveness of our proposed method with various training settings.