SOD CNNs-based Read List

April 15, 2025 · View on GitHub

In this repository, we mainly focus on deep learning based saliency methods (2D RGB, 3D RGB-D/T, Video SOD and 4D Light Field) and provide a summary (Code and Paper). We hope this repo can help you to better understand saliency detection in the deep learning era.


:heavy_exclamation_mark: 2D SOD: Add two AAAI'25 papers, one PAMI paper.
:heavy_exclamation_mark: 3D SOD: Add two AAAA'25 papers, one ACM MM'24 paper.
:heavy_exclamation_mark: LF SOD: Add two IEEE TCSVT papers, one arXiv'24 paper.
:heavy_exclamation_mark: Video SOD : Add one NeurIPS24 paper.

Camouflaged Object Detection is a closely-related task of SOD, with paper summary of this link.

:running: We will keep updating it. :running:


Content:

  1. An overview of the Paper List
  2. 2D RGB Saliency Detection
  3. 3D RGB-D/T Saliency Detection
  4. 4D Light Field Saliency Detection
  5. Video Saliency Detection
  6. Survery and earlier Methods
  7. The SOD dataset download
  8. Evaluation Metrics
  9. SOD Leaderboard

Overall

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2D RGB Saliency Detection

2025

No.Pub.TitleLinks
:triangular_flag_on_post: 01PAMIConditional Diffusion Models for Camouflaged and Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
:triangular_flag_on_post: 02AAAIMSV-PCT: Multi-Sparse-View Enhanced Transformer Framework for Salient Object Detection in Point CloudsPaper/Code
:triangular_flag_on_post: 03AAAIExploring Salient Object Detection with Adder Neural NetworksPaper/Code

2024

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01WACVUnsupervised and semi-supervised co-salient object detection via segmentation frequency statisticsPaper/Code
02WACV3SD: Self-Supervised Saliency Detection With No LabelsPaper/Code
03WACVLearning Saliency From FixationsPaper/Code
04WACVSalient Object Detection for Images Taken by People With Vision ImpairmentsPaper/Code
05WACVDefense Against Adversarial Cloud Attack on Remote Sensing Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
06ICASSPZero-Shot Co-salient Object Detection FrameworkPaper/Code
07CVPRVSCode: General Visual Salient and Camouflaged Object Detection with 2D Prompt LearningPaper/Code
08AAAIWeakPCSOD: Overcoming the Bias of Box Annotations for Weakly Supervised Point Cloud Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
09AAAISeqRank: Sequential Ranking of Salient ObjectsPaper/Code
10AAAIFinding Visual Saliency in Continuous Spike StreamPaper/Code
11CVPRCOSALPURE: Learning Concept from Group Images for Robust Co-SaliencyPaper/Code
12IJCAIUnified Unsupervised Salient Object Detection via Knowledge TransferPaper/Code
13TIIMINet: Multi-scale Interactive Network for Real-time Salient Object Detection of Strip Steel Surface DefectsPaper/Code
14ICMLSize-invariance Matters: Rethinking Metrics and Losses for Imbalanced Multi-object Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
15ICMLSpider: A Unified Framework for Context-dependent Concept SegmentationPaper/Code
16ICMLDiving into Underwater: Segment Anything Model Guided Underwater Salient Instance Segmentation and A Large-scale DatasetPaper/Code
17CVPRDomain Separation Graph Neural Networks for Saliency Object RankingPaper/Code
18CVPRAdvancing Saliency Ranking with Human Fixations: Dataset Models and BenchmarksPaper/Code
19CVPRTask-Adaptive Saliency Guidance for Exemplar-free Class Incremental LearningPaper/Code
20CVPRUnsupervised Salient Instance DetectionPaper/Code
21CVPRDiffSal: Joint Audio and Video Learning for Diffusion Saliency PredictionPaper/Code
22TMMADMNet: Attention-guided Densely Multi-scale Network for Lightweight Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
23ACMMMMulti-Scale and Detail-Enhanced Segment Anything Model for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
24ACMMMInstance-Level Panoramic Audio-Visual Saliency Detection and RankingPaper/Code
25ECCVCONDA: Condensed Deep Association Learning for Co-Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
26ECCVSelf-supervised co-salient object detection via feature correspondences at multiple scalesPaper/Code
27ECCVSHINE: Saliency-aware HIerarchical NEgative Ranking for Compositional Temporal GroundingPaper/Code
28ECCVDSMix: Distortion-Induced Saliency Map Based Pre-training for No-Reference Image Quality AssessmentPaper/Code
29ECCVSalience-Based Adaptive Masking: Revisiting Token Dynamics for Enhanced Pre-trainingPaper/Code
30ECCVData Augmentation via Latent Diffusion for Saliency PredictionPaper/Code
31PAMIDivide-and-Conquer: Confluent Triple-Flow Network for RGB-T Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code

2023

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01AAAILeNo: Adversarial Robust Salient Object Detection Networks with Learnable NoisePaper/Code
02AAAIPixel is All You Need: Adversarial Trajectory-Ensemble Active Learning for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
03AAAIMemory-aided Contrastive Consensus Learning for Co-salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
04TNNLSMulti-Projection Fusion and Refinement Network for Salient Object Detection in 360◦ Omnidirectional ImagePaper/Code
05IEEE TIPBoosting Broader Receptive Fields for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
06IEEE TPAMICo-Salient Object Detection with Co-Representation PurificationPaper/Code
07CVPRTexture-guided Saliency Distilling for Unsupervised Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
08CVPRDiscriminative Co-Saliency and Background Mining Transformer for Co-Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
09CVPRSketch2Saliency: Learning to Detect Salient Objects from Human DrawingsPaper/Code
10CVPRBoosting Low-Data Instance Segmentation by Unsupervised Pre-training with Saliency PromptPaper/Code
11CVPRPixels, Regions, and Objects: Multiple Enhancement for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
12CVPRCo-Salient Object Detection with Uncertainty-aware Group Exchange-MaskingPaper/Code
13CVPRModeling the Distributional Uncertainty for Salient Object Detection ModelsPaper/Code
14ACM MMRecurrent Multi-scale Transformer for High-Resolution Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
15TOMMPAV-SOD: A New Task Towards Panoramic Audiovisual Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
16ICCVCounterfactual-based Saliency Map: Towards Visual Contrastive Explanations for Neural NetworksPaper/Code
17ACM MMDistortion-aware Transformer in 360° Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
18ACM MMTowards End-to-End Unsupervised Saliency Detection with Self-Supervised Top-Down ContextPaper/Code
19ACM MMPartitioned Saliency Ranking with Dense Pyramid TransformersPaper/Code
20ACM MMCo-Salient Object Detection with Semantic-Level Consensus Extraction and DispersionPaper/Code
21TMMTowards Complete and Detail-Preserved Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
22arXivUnified-modal Salient Object Detection via Adaptive Prompt LearningPaper/Code
23arXivAll in One: RGB, RGB-D, and RGB-T Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
24NeurIPSWhat Do Deep Saliency Models Learn about Visual Attention?Paper/Code
25PAMICADC++: Advanced Consensus-Aware Dynamic Convolution for Co-Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
26IEEE TIPUSOD10K: A New Benchmark Dataset for Underwater Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
27IEEE TMMSpectrum-driven Mixed-frequency Network for Hyperspectral Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
28IEEE TIPRethinking Object Saliency Ranking: A Novel Whole-flow Processing ParadigmPaper/Code

2022

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01AAAIUnsupervised Domain Adaptive Salient Object Detection Through Uncertainty-Aware Pseudo-Label LearningPaper/Code
02AAAIA Causal Debiasing Framework for Unsupervised Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
03AAAIEnergy-Based Generative Cooperative Saliency PredictionPaper/Code
04AAAIWeakly-Supervised Salient Object Detection Using Point SupervisonPaper/Code
05AAAITRACER: Extreme Attention Guided Salient Object Tracing NetworkPaper/Code
06AAAII can find you! Boundary-guided Separated Attention Network for Camouflaged Object DetectionPaper/Code
07WACVRecursive Contour-Saliency Blending Network for Accurate Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
08IEEE TPAMIPoolNet+: Exploring the Potential of Pooling for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
09IEEE TPAMIA Highly Efficient Model to Study the Semantics of Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
10IEEE TGRSLightweight Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images via Feature CorrelationPaper/Code
11TOMMDisentangle Saliency Detection into Cascaded Detail Modeling and Body FillingPaper/Code
12TMMNoise-Sensitive Adversarial Learning for Weakly Supervised Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
13ArXivJoint Learning of Salient Object Detection, Depth Estimation and Contour ExtractionPaper/Code
14ArXivA Unified Transformer Framework for Group-based Segmentation: Co-Segmentation, Co-Saliency Detection and Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
15IEEE TCybAdjacent Context Coordination Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing ImagesPaper/Code
16IEEE TCybEdge-guided Recurrent Positioning Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing ImagesPaper/Code
17IEEE TCSVTProgressive Dual-attention Residual Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
18IEEE TCybGlobal-and-Local Collaborative Learning for Co-Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
19ArXivAn Energy-Based Prior for Generative SaliencyPaper/Code
20IEEE TIPEDN: Salient Object Detection via Extremely-Downsampled NetworkPaper/Code
21IEEE TPAMISalient Object Detection via Integrity LearningPaper/Code
22IEEE TCSVTTCNet:Co-salient Object Detection via Parallel Interaction of Transformers and CNNsPaper/Code
23ArXivActivation to Saliency: Forming High-Quality Labels for Unsupervised Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
24CVPRZoom In and Out: A Mixed-scale Triplet Network for Camouflaged Object DetectionPaper/Code
25CVPRCan You Spot the Chameleon? Adversarially Camouflaging Images from Co-Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
26CVPRDemocracy Does Matter: Comprehensive Feature Mining for Co-salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
27CVPRPyramid Grafting Network for One-Stage High Resolution Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
28CVPRDeep Saliency Prior for Reducing Visual DistractionPaper/Code
29CVPRMulti-Source Uncertainty Mining for Deep Unsupervised Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
30CVPRBi-Directional Object-Context Prioritization Learning for Saliency RankingPaper/Code
31CVPRDoes text attract attention on e-commerce images: A novel saliency prediction dataset and methodPaper/Code
32CVPRWPyramidal Attention for Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
33CVPRWUnsupervised Salient Object Detection with Spectral Cluster VotingPaper/Code
34ECCVKD-SCFNet: Towards More Accurate and Efficient Salient Object Detection via Knowledge DistillationPaper/Code
35ECCVSalient Object Detection for Point CloudsPaper/Code
36PRBiconNet: An Edge-preserved Connectivity-based Approach for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
37IEEE TCybDNA: Deeply-supervised Nonlinear Aggregation for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
38ACMMSynthetic Data Supervised Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
39IEEE TCSVTA Weakly Supervised Learning Framework for Salient Object Detection via Hybrid LabelsPaper/Code
40CVPRWUnsupervised Salient Object Detection with Spectral Cluster VotingPaper/Code
41IEEE TMMView-aware Salient Object Detection for 360° Omnidirectional ImagePaper/Code
42ACCVRevisiting Image Pyramid Structure for High Resolution Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
43ECCVSaliency Hierarchy Modeling via Generative Kernels for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
44IEEE TIPSalient Object Detection via Dynamic Scale RoutingPaper/Code
45NeurIPSMOVE: Unsupervised Movable Object Segmentation and DetectionPaper/Code
46PRBiconNet: An Edge-preserved Connectivity-based Approach for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code

2021

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01AAAIStructure-Consistent Weakly Supervised Salient Object Detection with Local Saliency CoherencePaper/Code
02AAAIPyramidal Feature Shrinking for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
03AAAILocate Globally, Segment Locally: A Progressive Architecture with Knowledge Review Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
04AAAIMulti-Scale Graph Fusion for Co-Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
05AAAIGenerating Diversified Comments via Reader-Aware Topic Modeling and Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
06ICIPMultiscale IoU: A Metric for Evaluation of Salient Object Detection with Fine StructuresPaper/Code
07TCSVTWeakly-Supervised Saliency Detection via Salient Object SubitizingPaper/Code
08TIPSAMNet: Stereoscopically Attentive Multi-scale Network for Lightweight Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
09IJCAIC2FNet: Context-aware Cross-level Fusion Network for Camouflaged Object DetectionPaper/Code
10CVPRRailroad is not a Train: Saliency as Pseudo-pixel Supervision for Weakly Supervised Semantic SegmentationPaper/Code
11CVPRPrototype-Guided Saliency Feature Learning for Person SearchPaper/Code
12CVPRMesh Saliency: An Independent Perceptual Measure or A Derivative of Image Saliency?Paper/Code
13CVPRWeakly-Supervised Instance Segmentation via Class-Agnostic Learning With Salient ImagesPaper/Code
14CVPRDeepACG: Co-Saliency Detection via Semantic-Aware Contrast Gromov-Wasserstein DistancePaper/Code
15CVPRBlack-Box Explanation of Object Detectors via Saliency MapsPaper/Code
16CVPRFrom Semantic Categories to Fixations: A Novel Weakly-Supervised Visual-Auditory Saliency Detection ApproachPaper/Code
17CVPRCAMERAS: Enhanced Resolution and Sanity Preserving Class Activation Mapping for Image SaliencyPaper/Code
18CVPRSaliency-Guided Image TranslationPaper/Code
19CVPRGroup Collaborative Learning for Co-Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
20CVPRUncertainty-aware Joint Salient Object and Camouflaged Object DetectionPaper/Code
21ACMMAuto-MSFNet: Search Multi-scale Fusion Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
22IEEE TIPDecomposition and Completion Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
23ICCVVisual Saliency TransformerPaper/Code
24ICCVDisentangled High Quality Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
25ICCViNAS: Integral NAS for Device-Aware Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
26ICCVScene Context-Aware Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
27ICCVMFNet: Multi-Filter Directive Network for Weakly Supervised Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
28ICCVSalient Object Ranking with Position-Preserved AttentionPaper/Code
29ICCVSummarize and Search: Learning Consensus-aware Dynamic Convolution for Co-Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
30IEEE TIPSalient Object Detection with Purificatory Mechanism and Structural Similarity LossPaper/Code
31ACMMComplementary Trilateral Decoder for Fast and Accurate Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
32NeurIPSLearning Generative Vision Transformer with Energy-Based Latent Space for Saliency PredictionPaper/Code
33NeurIPSDiscovering Dynamic Salient Regions for Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural NetworksPaper/Code
34IEEE TIPProgressive Self-Guided Loss for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
35IEEE TMMDense Attention-guided Cascaded Network for Salient Object Detection of Strip Steel Surface DefectsPaper/Code
36IEEE TIPRethinking the U-Shape Structure for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code

2020

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01AAAIProgressive Feature Polishing Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
02AAAIGlobal Context-Aware Progressive Aggregation Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
03AAAIF3Net: Fusion, Feedback and Focus for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
04AAAIMulti-spectral Salient Object Detection by Adversarial Domain AdaptationPaper/Code
05AAAIMulti-Type Self-Attention Guided Degraded Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
06CVPRWeakly-Supervised Salient Object Detection via Scribble AnnotationsPaper/Code
07CVPRTaking a Deeper Look at the Co-salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
08CVPRMulti-scale Interactive Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
09CVPRInteractive Two-Stream Decoder for Accurate and Fast Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
10CVPRLabel Decoupling Framework for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
11CVPRAdaptive Graph Convolutional Network with Attention Graph Clustering for Co-saliency DetectionPaper/Code
12ECCVHighly Efficient Salient Object Detection with 100K ParametersPaper/Code
13ECCVn-Reference Transfer Learning for Saliency PredictionPaper/Code
14ECCVGradient-Induced Co-Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
13ECCVLearning Noise-Aware Encoder-Decoder from Noisy Labels by Alternating Back-Propagation for Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
15ECCVSuppress and Balance: A Simple Gated Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
16IEEE TIPDynamic Feature Integration for Simultaneous Detection of Salient Object, Edge and SkeletonPaper/Code
17IEEE TIPCAGNet: Content-Aware Guidance for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
18IEEE TCYBLightweight Salient Object Detection via Hierarchical Visual Perception LearningPaper/Code
19NeurIPSCoADNet: Collaborative Aggregation-and-Distribution Networks for Co-Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
20NeurIPSFew-Cost Salient Object Detection with Adversarial-Paced LearningPaper/Code
21NeurIPSICNet: Intra-saliency Correlation Network for Co-Saliency DetectionPaper/Code

2019

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01CVPRAFNet: Attentive Feedback Network for Boundary-aware Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
02CVPRBASNet: Boundary Aware Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
03CVPRCPD: Cascaded Partial Decoder for Accurate and Fast Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
04CVPRMulti-source weak supervision for saliency detectionPaper/Code
05CVPRMLMSNet:A Mutual Learning Method for Salient Object Detection with intertwined Multi-SupervisionPaper/Code
06CVPRCapSal: Leveraging Captioning to Boost Semantics for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
07CVPRPoolNet: A Simple Pooling-Based Design for Real-Time Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
08CVPRAn Iterative and Cooperative Top-down and Bottom-up Inference Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
09CVPRPyramid Feature Attention Network for Saliency detectionPaper/Code
10AAAIDeep Embedding Features for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
11ICIPSalient Object Detection Via Deep Hierarchical Context Aggregation And Multi-Layer SupervisionPaper/Code
12IEEE TCSVTAADF-Net: Aggregating Attentional Dilated Features for Salient ObjectPaper/Code
13IEEE TCybROSA: Robust Salient Object Detection against Adversarial AttacksPaper/Code
14arXivDSAL-GAN: DENOISING BASED SALIENCY PREDICTION WITH GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKSPaper/Code
15arXivSAC-Net: Spatial Attenuation Context for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
16arXivSE2Net: Siamese Edge-Enhancement Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
17arXivRegion Refinement Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
18arXivContour Loss: Boundary-Aware Learning for Salient Object SegmentationPaper/Code
19arXivOGNet: Salient Object Detection with Output-guided Attention ModulePaper/Code
20arXivEdge-guided Non-local Fully Convolutional Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
21ICCVFLoss:Optimizing the F-measure for Threshold-free Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
22ICCVStacked Cross Refinement Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
23ICCVSelectivity or Invariance: Boundary-aware Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
24ICCVHRSOD:Towards High-Resolution Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
25ICCVEGNet:Edge Guidance Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
26ICCVStructured Modeling of Joint Deep Feature and Prediction Refinement for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
27ICCVEmploying Deep Part-Object Relationships for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
28NeurIPSDeep Robust Unsupervised Saliency Prediction With Self-SupervisionPaper/Code
29CVPRSalient Object Detection With Pyramid Attention and Salient EdgesPaper/Code

2018

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01CVPRA Bi-Directional Message Passing Model for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
02CVPRPiCANet: Learning Pixel-wise Contextual Attention for Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
03CVPRPAGR: Progressive Attention Guided Recurrent Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
04CVPRLearning to promote saliency detectorsPaper/Code
05CVPRDetect Globally, Refine Locally: A Novel Approach to Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
06CVPRSalient Object Detection Driven by Fixation PredictionPaper/Code
07IJCAIR3Net: Recurrent Residual Refinement Network for Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
08IJCAILFR: Salient Object Detection by Lossless Feature ReflectionPaper/Code
09ECCVContour Knowledge Transfer for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
10ECCVReverse Attention for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
11IEEE TIPAn unsupervised game-theoretic approach to saliency detectionPaper/Code
12arXivAgile Amulet: Real-Time Salient Object Detection with Contextual AttentionPaper/Code
13arXivHyperFusion-Net: Densely Reflective Fusion for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
14arXiv(TBOS)Three Birds One Stone: A Unified Framework for Salient Object Segmentation, Edge Detection and Skeleton ExtractionPaper/Code
15CVPRDeep Unsupervised Saliency Detection: A Multiple Noisy Labeling PerspectivePaper/Code

2017

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01CVPRDSS: Deeply Supervised Salient Object Detection with Short ConnectionsPaper/Code
02CVPRNon-Local Deep Features for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
03CVPRLearning to Detect Salient Objects with Image-level SupervisionPaper/Code
04CVPRSalGAN: visual saliency prediction with adversarial networksPaper/Code
05ICCVA Stagewise Refinement Model for Detecting Salient Objects in ImagesPaper/Code
06ICCVAmulet: Aggregating Multi-level Convolutional Features for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
07ICCVLearning Uncertain Convolutional Features for Accurate Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
08ICCVSupervision by Fusion: Towards Unsupervised Learning of Deep Salient Object DetectorPaper/Code

2016

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01CVPRDHSNet: Deep hierarchical saliency network for salient object detectionPaper/Code
02CVPRELD: Deep Saliency with Encoded Low level Distance Map and High Level FeaturesPaper/Code
03ECCVRFCN: Saliency detection with recurrent fully convolutional networksPaper/Code

3D RGB-D/T Saliency Detection

2025

No.Pub.TitleLinks
:triangular_flag_on_post: 01AAAIDiMSOD: A Diffusion-Based Framework for Multi-Modal Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
:triangular_flag_on_post: 02AAAISMR-Net: Semantic-Guided Mutually Reinforcing Network for Cross-Modal Image Fusion and Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code

2024

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01ICASSPA Saliency Enhanced Feature Fusion based multiscale RGB-D Salient Object Detection NetworkPaper/Code
02IJCVCross-Modal Fusion and Progressive Decoding Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
03TMMUniTR: A Unified TRansformer-based Framework for Co-object and Multi-modal Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
04IEEE TIPQuality-aware Selective Fusion Network for V-D-T Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
05IEEE TCSVTLearning Adaptive Fusion Bank for Multi-modal Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
06IEEE TMMAlignment-Free RGBT Salient Object Detection: Semantics-guided Asymmetric Correlation Network and A Unified BenchmarkPaper/Code
07ACMMMBackdoor Attacks on Bimodal Salient Object Detection with RGB-Thermal DataPaper/Code
08ECCVCoLA: Conditional Dropout and Language-driven Robust Dual-modal Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code

2023

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01TCSVTHRTransNet: HRFormer-Driven Two-Modality Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
02IEEE TIPCAVER: Cross-Modal View-Mixed Transformer for Bi-Modal Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
03IEEE TIPLSNet: Lightweight Spatial Boosting Network for Detecting Salient Objects in RGB-Thermal ImagesPaper/Code
04ICMEScribble-Supervised RGB-T Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
05TCSVTMutual Information Regularization for Weakly-supervised RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
06Information FusionAn Interactively Reinforced Paradigm for Joint Infrared-Visible Image Fusion and Saliency Object DetectionPaper/Code
07IEEE TMMCATNet: A Cascaded and Aggregated Transformer Network For RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
08ACM MMPoint-aware Interaction and CNN-induced Refinement Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
09IEEE TIPDepth Injection Framework for RGBD Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
10ACM MMModality Profile - A New Critical Aspect to be Considered When Generating RGB-D Salient Object Detection Training SetPaper/Code
11ACM MMSaliency Prototype for RGB-D and RGB-T Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
12NeurIPSDVSOD: RGB-D Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code

2022

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01CVMJSpecificity-preserving RGB-D Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
02AAAISelf-Supervised Pretraining for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
03IEEE TPAMIMobileSal: Extremely Efficient RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
04IEEE TIPBoosting RGB-D Saliency Detection by Leveraging Unlabeled RGB ImagesPaper/Code
05IEEE TIPLearning Discriminative Cross-modality Features for RGB-D Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
06IEEE TIPWeakly Supervised RGB-D Salient Object Detection with Prediction Consistency Training and Active Scribble BoostingPaper/Code
07ICLRPromoting Saliency From Depth: Deep Unsupervised RGB-D Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
08ArXivDFTR: Depth-supervised Hierarchical Feature Fusion Transformer for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
09ArXivGroupTransNet: Group Transformer Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
10ArXivCAVER: Cross-Modal View-Mixed Transformer for Bi-Modal Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
11PREncoder Deep Interleaved Network with Multi-scale Aggregation for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
12CVPRWPyramidal Attention for Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
13TMMDepth-induced Gap-reducing Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection: An Interaction, Guidance and Refinement ApproachPaper/Code
14TMMC2DFNet: Criss-Cross Dynamic Filter Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
15ArXivDual Swin-Transformer based Mutual Interactive Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
16IEEE TCSVTCross-Collaborative Fusion-Encoder Network for Robust RGB-Thermal Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
17IEEE TIPLearning Implicit Class Knowledge for RGB-D Co-Salient Object Detection with TransformersPaper/Code
18ACMMDepth-inspired Label Mining for Unsupervised RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
193DVRobust RGB-D Fusion for Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
20ArXivDepth Quality-Inspired Feature Manipulation for Efficient RGB-D and Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
21ECCVSPSN: Superpixel Prototype Sampling Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
22ECCVMVSalNet:Multi-View Augmentation for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
23IJCVLearnable Depth-Sensitive Attention for Deep RGB-D Saliency Detection with Multi-modal Fusion Architecture SearchPaper/Code
24IEEE TNNLS3-D Convolutional Neural Networks for RGB-D Salient Object Detection and BeyondPaper/Code
25IEEE TIPImproving RGB-D Salient Object Detection via Modality-aware DecoderPaper/Code
26IEEE TIPCIR-Net: Cross-modality interaction and refinement for RGB-D salient object detectionPaper/Code
27IEEE TCSVTHRTransNet: HRFormer-Driven Two-Modality Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
28IEEE TMMDoes Thermal Really Always Matter for RGB-T Salient Object Detection?Paper/Code
29IEEE TCSVTModality-Induced Transfer-Fusion Network for RGB-D and RGB-T Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
30IEEE TIPJoint Learning of Salient Object Detection, Depth Estimation and Contour ExtractionPaper/Code
31IJCVDelving into Calibrated Depth for Accurate RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
32IEEE TCSVTMoADNet: Mobile Asymmetric Dual-Stream Networks for Real-Time and Lightweight RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code

2021

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01CVPRDeep RGB-D Saliency Detection with Depth-Sensitive Attention and Automatic Multi-Modal FusionPaper/Code
02CVPRCalibrated RGB-D Saliency Object DetectionPaper/Code
03AAAIRGB-D Salient Object Detection via 3D Convolutional Neural NetworksPaper/Code
04IEEE TIPHierarchical Alternate Interaction Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
05IEEE TIPCDNet: Complementary Depth Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
06IEEE TIPRGB-D Salient Object Detection with Ubiquitous Target AwarenessPaper/Code
07ICMEBTS-Net: Bi-directional Transfer-and-Selection Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
08ACMMDepth Quality-Inspired Feature Manipulation for Efficient RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
09ACMMTriTransNet RGB-D Salient Object Detection with a Triplet Transformer Embedding NetworkPaper/Code
10ICCVRGB-D Saliency Detection via Cascaded Mutual Information MinimizationPaper/Code
11ICCVSpecificity-preserving RGB-D Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
12ACMMCross-modality Discrepant Interaction Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
13IEEE TIPDynamic Selective Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
14IJCVCNN-based RGB-D Salient Object Detection: Learn, Select and FusePaper/Code
15NeurIPSJoint Semantic Mining for Weakly Supervised RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
16IEEE TMMCCAFNet: Crossflow and Cross-scale Adaptive Fusion Network for Detecting Salient Objects in RGB-D ImagesPaper/Code
17IEEE TETCIAPNet: Adversarial-Learning-Assistance and Perceived Importance Fusion Network for All-Day RGB-T Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code

2020

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01IEEE TIPICNet: Information Conversion Network for RGB-D Based Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
02CVPRJL-DCF: Joint Learning and Densely-Cooperative Fusion Framework for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
03CVPRUC-Net: Uncertainty Inspired RGB-D Saliency Detection via Conditional Variational AutoencodersPaper/Code
04CVPRA2dele: Adaptive and Attentive Depth Distiller for Efficient RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
05CVPRSelect, Supplement and Focus for RGB-D Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
06CVPRLearning Selective Self-Mutual Attention for RGB-D Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
07ECCVAccurate RGB-D Salient Object Detection via Collaborative LearningPaper/Code
08ECCVCross-Modal Weighting Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
09ECCVBBS-Net: RGB-D Salient Object Detection with a Bifurcated Backbone Strategy NetworkPaper/Code
10ECCVHierarchical Dynamic Filtering Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
11ECCVProgressively Guided Alternate Refinement Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
12ECCVRGB-D Salient Object Detection with Cross-Modality Modulation and SelectionPaper/Code
13ECCVCascade Graph Neural Networks for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
14ECCVA Single Stream Network for Robust and Real-time RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
15ECCVAsymmetric Two-Stream Architecture for Accurate RGB-D Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
16ACMMIs Depth Really Necessary for Salient Object Detection?Paper/Code
17ACMMMMNet: Multi-Stage and Multi-Scale Fusion Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
18ACMMFeature Reintegration over Differential Treatment: A Top-down and Adaptive Fusion Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
19IEEE TIPRGBD Salient Object Detection via Disentangled Cross-Modal FusionPaper/Code
20IEEE TIPImproved Saliency Detection in RGB-D Images Using Two-Phase Depth Estimation and Selective Deep FusionPaper/Code
21IEEE TIPDepth Potentiality-Aware Gated Attention Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
22IEEE TNNLSD3Net:Rethinking RGB-D Salient Object Detection: Models, Datasets, and Large-Scale BenchmarksPaper/Code
23IEEE TCSVTRevisiting Feature Fusion for RGB-T Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code

2019

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01ICCVDMRA: Depth-induced Multi-scale Recurrent Attention Network for Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
02CVPRCPFP: Contrast Prior and Fluid Pyramid Integration for RGBD Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
03IEEE TIPThree-stream Attention-aware Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
04IEEE PRMulti-modal fusion network with multi-scale multi-path and cross-modal interactions for RGB-D salient object detectionPaper/Code
05IEEE AccessAFNet: Adaptive Fusion for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
06IEEE TIPRGB-T Salient Object Detection via Fusing Multi-Level CNN FeaturesPaper/Code
07IEEE TMMRGB-T image saliency detection via collaborative graph learningPaper/Code

2018

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01CVPRPCA: Progressively Complementarity-aware Fusion Network for RGB-D Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
02IEEE TIPCo-saliency detection for RGBD images based on multi-constraint feature matching and cross label propagationPaper/Code
03ICMEPDNet: Prior-Model Guided Depth-enhanced Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code

2017

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01ICCVLearning RGB-D Salient Object Detection using background enclosure, depth contrast, and top-down featuresPaper/Code
02IEEE TIPDF: RGBD Salient Object Detection via Deep FusionPaper/Code
03IEEE TCybCTMF: Cnns-based rgb-d saliency detection via cross-view transfer and multiview fusionPaper/Code

Traditional methods

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01MTARGBD co-saliency detection via multiple kernel boosting and fusionPaper/Code
02ICCV17An Innovative Salient Object Detection Using Center-Dark Channel PriorPaper/Code
03IEEE SPLSaliency detection for stereoscopic images based on depth confidence analysis and multiple cues fusionPaper/Code
04IEEE SPLRGBD Co-saliency Detection via Bagging-Based ClusteringPaper/Code
05CVPRExploiting Global Priors for RGB-D Saliency DetectionPaper/Code

4D Light Field Saliency Detection

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01TOMMMCA: Saliency Detection on Light Field: A Multi-Cue ApproachPaper/Code
02IJCAIDILF: Saliency Detection with a Deeper Investigation of Light FieldPaper/Code
03CVPRWSC: A Weighted Sparse Coding Framework for Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
04IEEE PAMISaliency Detection on Light-FieldPaper/Code
05ICCVDeep Learning for Light Field Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
06NeurIPSMemory-oriented Decoder for Light Field Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
07AAAIExploit and Replace: An Asymmetrical Two-Stream Architecture for Versatile Light Field Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
08IEEE TCSVTA Multi-Task Collaborative Network for Light Field Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
09ArXivDUT-LFSaliency: Versatile Dataset and Light Field-to-RGB Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
10ArXivLearning Synergistic Attention for Light Field Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
11ArXivCMA-Net: A Cascaded Mutual Attention Network for Light Field Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
12IEEE TCyBPANet: Patch-Aware Network for Light Field Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
13ACMM21Occlusion-aware Bi-directional Guided Network for Light Field Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
14ICCV21Light Field Saliency Detection with Dual Local Graph Learning and Reciprocative GuidancePaper/Code
15CVPR22Learning from Pixel-Level Noisy Label : A New Perspective for Light Field Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
16NCMEANet: Multi-modal edge-aware network for light field salient object detectionPaper/Code
17IEEE TIPExploring Spatial Correlation for Light Field Saliency Detection: Expansion from a Single ViewPaper/Code
18IEEE TIPGeometry Auxiliary Salient ObjectDetection for Light Fields via Graph Neural NetworksPaper/Code
19ACMMLFBCNet: Light Field Boundary-aware and Cascaded Interaction Network for Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
20IEEE TIPWeakly-Supervised Salient Object Detection on Light FieldsPaper/Code
21IEEE TPAMIA Thorough Benchmark and a New Model for Light Field Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
22ICME23Guided Focal Stack Refinement Network for Light Field Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
23IEEE TCSVTLFTransNet: Light Field Salient Object Detection via a Learnable Weight DescriptorPaper/Code
24IEEE TCSVTLight Field Salient Object Detection with Sparse Views via Complementary and Discriminative Interaction NetworkPaper/Code
:triangular_flag_on_post: 25arXivLF Tracy: A Unified Single-Pipeline Approach for Salient Object Detection in Light Field CamerasPaper/Code

Video Salient Object Detection

2024

No.Pub.TitleLinks
:triangular_flag_on_post: 01AAAIA Motion-aware Spatio-temporal Graph for Video Salient Object RankingPaper/Code

2023

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01AAAIPanoramic Video Salient Object Detection with Ambisonic Audio GuidancePaper/Code

2022

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01AAAIYou Only Infer Once: Cross-Modal Meta-Transfer for Referring Video Object SegmentationPaper/Code
02AAAISiamese Network with Interactive Transformer for Video Object SegmentationPaper/Code
03AAAIIteratively Selecting an Easy Reference Frame Makes Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation EasierPaper/Code
04AAAIReliable Propagation-Correction Modulation for Video Object SegmentationPaper/Code
05WACVVideo Salient Object Detection via Contrastive Features and Attention ModulesPaper/Code
06ICIPDepth-Cooperated Trimodal Network for Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
07ArXivLearning Video Salient Object Detection Progressively from Unlabeled VideosPaper/Code
08ArXivRethinking Video Salient Object RankingPaper/Code
09ACMMWeakly Supervised Video Salient Object Detection via Point SupervisionPaper/Code
10ECCVHierarchical Feature Alignment Network for Unsupervised Video Object SegmentationPaper/Code
11ECCVXMem: Long-Term Video Object Segmentation with an Atkinson-Shiffrin Memory ModelPaper/Code
12ACMMBidirectionally Learning Dense Spatio-temporal Feature Propagation Network for Unsupervised Video Object SegmentationPaper/Code
13NeurIPSSemi-Supervised Video Salient Object Detection Based on Uncertainty-Guided Pseudo LabelsPaper/Code

2021

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01CVPRWeakly Supervised Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
02ArXivVideo Salient Object Detection via Adaptive Local-Global RefinementPaper/Code
03ICIPGuidance and Teaching Network for Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
04ACMMMulti-Source Fusion and Automatic Predictor Selection for Zero-Shot Video Object SegmentationPaper/Code
05ICCVDynamic Context-Sensitive Filtering Network for Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
06ICCVFull-Duplex Strategy for Video Object SegmentationPaper/Code
07ICCVDeep Transport Network for Unsupervised Video Object SegmentationPaper/Code
08IEEE TIPExploring Rich and Efficient Spatial Temporal Interactions for Real Time Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code

2020

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01CVPRSTAViS: Spatio-Temporal AudioVisual Saliency NetworkPaper/Code
02ECCVUnified Image and Video Saliency ModelingPaper/Code
03ECCVMeasuring the importance of temporal features in video saliencyPaper/Code
04ECCVTENet: Triple Excitation Network for Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
05IEEE TIPLearning Long-term Structural Dependencies for Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
06IEEE AccessCross Complementary Fusion Network for Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
07AAAIPyramid Constrained Self-Attention Network for Fast Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code

2019

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01ICCVMotion Guided Attention for Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
02ICCVSemi-Supervised Video Salient Object Detection Using Pseudo-LabelsPaper/Code
03ICCVTemporally-Aggregating Spatial Encoder-Decoder Network for Video Saliency DetectionPaper/Code
04ICCVRANet:Ranking attention Network for Fast Video Object SegmentationPaper/Code
05CVPRShifting More Attention to Video Salient Objection DetectionPaper/Code
06CVPRLearning Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation through Visual AttentionPaper/Code
07CVPRSee More, Know More: Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation with Co-Attention Siamese NetworksPaper/Code
08IEEE TIPImproving Robust Video Saliency Detection based on Long-term Spatial-Temporal InformationPaper/Code

2018

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01ECCVPyramid Dilated Deeper CoonvLSTM for Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
02ECCVDeepVS: A Deep Learning Based Video Saliency Prediction ApproachPaper/Code
03CVPRRevisiting Video Saliency: A Large-scale Benchmark and a New ModelPaper/Code
04CVPRFlow Guided Recurrent Neural Encoder for Video Salient Object DetectionPaper/Code
05IEEE TIPVideo Salient Object Detection via Fully Convolutional NetworksPaper/Code

2017

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01IEEE TIPLearning to Detect Video Saliency with HEVC FeaturesPaper/Code

Earlier Methods

No.Pub.TitleLinks
01IEEE TIP15Salient object detection: A benchmarkPaper/Code
02IEEE TCSVT18Review of visual saliency detectionwith comprehensive informationPaper/Code
03ACM TIST18A review of co-saliency detection algorithms: Fundamentals, applications, and challengesPaper/Code
04IEEE TSP18Advanced deep-learning techniques for salient and category-specific object detection: A surveyPaper/Code
05IJCV18Attentive systems: A surveyPaper/Project
06ECCV18Salient Objects in Clutter: Bringing Salient Object Detection to the ForegroundPaper/Code
07CVM18Salient object detection: A surveyPaper/Code
08IEEE TNNLS19Salient Object detection with deep learning: AreviewPaper/Code
09arXiv19Salient Object Detection in the Deep Learning Era-An In-Depth SurveyPaper/Code
10CVM21RGB-D Salient Object Detection: A SurveyPaper/Code

The part of the collection is thanks to Deng-Ping Fan and Tao Zhou.

  • Salient Object Detection in the Deep Learning Era: An In-Depth Survey. paper link.
  • This is a paper list published by another author. here
  • RGB-D Salient Object Detection: A Survey. project link.

The SOD dataset download

Evaluation Metrics

  • Saliency maps evaluation.
    This link near all evaluation metrics for salient object detection including E-measure, S-measure, F-measure, MAE scores and PR curves or bar metrics. You can found in here.

  • Saliency Dataset evaluation.
    This repo can compute the ratio of obj.area and obj.contrast on binary saliency dataset. This Toolbox contains two evaluation metrics, including obj(object).area and obj.contrast.
    You can found in here.

Comparison with state-of-the-arts

  • Here includes the performance comparison of almost all 2D salient object detection algorithms.
  • Here includes the performance comparison of almost all 3D RGB-D salient object detection algorithms.

AI Conference Deadlines

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