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 …

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 …

Salient objects in clutter: Bringing salient object detection to the foreground

DP Fan, MM Cheng, JJ Liu, SH Gao… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We provide a comprehensive evaluation of salient object detection (SOD) models. Our
analysis identifies a serious design bias of existing SOD datasets which assumes that each …

BING: Binarized normed gradients for objectness estimation at 300fps

MM Cheng, Z Zhang, WY Lin… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2014 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Training a generic objectness measure to produce a small set of candidate object windows,
has been shown to speed up the classical sliding window object detection paradigm. We …

Attentive systems: A survey

TV Nguyen, Q Zhao, S Yan - International Journal of Computer Vision, 2018 - Springer
Visual saliency analysis detects salient regions/objects that attract human attention in
natural scenes. It has attracted intensive research in different fields such as computer vision …

Global contrast based salient region detection

MM Cheng, NJ Mitra, X Huang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic estimation of salient object regions across images, without any prior assumption
or knowledge of the contents of the corresponding scenes, enhances many computer vision …

Graph spectral image processing

G Cheung, E Magli, Y Tanaka… - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advent of graph signal processing (GSP) has spurred intensive studies of signals
that live naturally on irregular data kernels described by graphs (eg, social networks …

Efficient salient region detection with soft image abstraction

MM Cheng, J Warrell, WY Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Detecting visually salient regions in images is one of the fundamental problems in computer
vision. We propose a novel method to decompose an image into large scale perceptually …

A highly efficient model to study the semantics of salient object detection

MM Cheng, SH Gao, A Borji, YQ Tan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
CNN-based salient object detection (SOD) methods achieve impressive performance.
However, the way semantic information is encoded in them and whether they are category …

Deep unsupervised saliency detection: A multiple noisy labeling perspective

J Zhang, T Zhang, Y Dai, M Harandi… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The success of current deep saliency detection methods heavily depends on the availability
of large-scale supervision in the form of per-pixel labeling. Such supervision, while labor …