Saliency Detection

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

15 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

4 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 137 papers with code (364 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• U²-Net: Going Deeper with Nested U-Structure for Salient Object Detection
  18 May 2020 29 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 42 samples · 38 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper, we design a simple yet powerful deep network architecture, U²-Net, for salient object detection (SOD).
• Pyramid Feature Attention Network for Saliency detection
  1 Mar 2019 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 10 samples · 8 unverified
  To solve this problem, we propose Pyramid Feature Attention network to focus on effective high-level context features and low-level spatial structural features.
• Sanity Checks for Saliency Maps
  8 Oct 2018 5 repositories listed
  We find that reliance, solely, on visual assessment can be misleading.
• P2T: Pyramid Pooling Transformer for Scene Understanding
  22 Jun 2021 4 repositories listed
  A popular solution to this problem is to use a single pooling operation to reduce the sequence length.
• ICNet: Intra-saliency Correlation Network for Co-Saliency Detection
  1 Dec 2020 4 repositories listed
  Intra-saliency and inter-saliency cues have been extensively studied for co-saliency detection (Co-SOD).
• Uncertainty Inspired RGB-D Saliency Detection
  7 Sep 2020 4 repositories listed
  Our framework includes two main models: 1) a generator model, which maps the input image and latent variable to stochastic saliency prediction, and 2) an inference model, which gradually updates the latent variable by…
• Real Time Image Saliency for Black Box Classifiers
  22 May 2017 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  In this work we develop a fast saliency detection method that can be applied to any differentiable image classifier.
• Deeply supervised salient object detection with short connections
  15 Nov 2016 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified
  Recent progress on saliency detection is substantial, benefiting mostly from the explosive development of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
• A Weakly Supervised Learning Framework for Salient Object Detection via Hybrid Labels
  7 Sep 2022 3 repositories listed
  In this paper, we focus on a new weakly-supervised SOD task under hybrid labels, where the supervision labels include a large number of coarse labels generated by the traditional unsupervised method and a small number…
• Specificity-preserving RGB-D Saliency Detection
  18 Aug 2021 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 8 of 14 samples · 6 unverified · 14 pointer-only (licence)
  To effectively fuse cross-modal features in the shared learning network, we propose a cross-enhanced integration module (CIM) and then propagate the fused feature to the next layer for integrating cross-level…
• CAGNet: Content-Aware Guidance for Salient Object Detection
  29 Nov 2019 3 repositories listed
  Beneficial from Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (FCNs), saliency detection methods have achieved promising results.
• Time-Series Anomaly Detection Service at Microsoft
  10 Jun 2019 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified
  At Microsoft, we develop a time-series anomaly detection service which helps customers to monitor the time-series continuously and alert for potential incidents on time.
• Joint Correcting and Refinement for Balanced Low-Light Image Enhancement
  28 Sep 2023 2 repositories listed
  Specifically, the proposed method, so-called Joint Correcting and Refinement Network (JCRNet), which mainly consists of three stages to balance brightness, color, and illumination of enhancement.
• Simultaneous Image-to-Zero and Zero-to-Noise: Diffusion Models with Analytical Image Attenuation
  23 Jun 2023 2 repositories listed
  We propose incorporating an analytical image attenuation process into the forward diffusion process for high-quality (un)conditioned image generation with significantly fewer denoising steps compared to the vanilla…
• Visual Saliency Transformer
  25 Apr 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 7 of 11 samples · 4 unverified · 11 pointer-only (licence)
  We also develop a token-based multi-task decoder to simultaneously perform saliency and boundary detection by introducing task-related tokens and a novel patch-task-attention mechanism.
• Accurate RGB-D Salient Object Detection via Collaborative Learning
  23 Jul 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 2 samples · 1 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  The explicitly extracted edge information goes together with saliency to give more emphasis to the salient regions and object boundaries.
• Unsupervised Discovery of Interpretable Directions in the GAN Latent Space
  10 Feb 2020 2 repositories listed
  The latent spaces of GAN models often have semantically meaningful directions.
• Motion Guided Attention for Video Salient Object Detection
  16 Sep 2019 2 repositories listed
  In this paper, we develop a multi-task motion guided video salient object detection network, which learns to accomplish two sub-tasks using two sub-networks, one sub-network for salient object detection in still images…
• Light Field Saliency Detection with Deep Convolutional Networks
  19 Jun 2019 2 repositories listed
  Light field imaging presents an attractive alternative to RGB imaging because of the recording of the direction of the incoming light.
• PiCANet: Pixel-wise Contextual Attention Learning for Accurate Saliency Detection
  15 Dec 2018 2 repositories listed
  We propose three specific formulations of the PiCANet via embedding the pixel-wise contextual attention mechanism into the pooling and convolution operations with attending to global or local contexts.
• Hyperspectral Image Dataset for Benchmarking on Salient Object Detection
  29 Jun 2018 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 5 samples · 5 unverified
  Many works have been done on salient object detection using supervised or unsupervised approaches on colour images.
• PDNet: Prior-model Guided Depth-enhanced Network for Salient Object Detection
  23 Mar 2018 2 repositories listed
  One is the lack of tremendous amount of annotated data to train a network.
• PiCANet: Learning Pixel-wise Contextual Attention for Saliency Detection
  21 Aug 2017 2 repositories listed
  We formulate the proposed PiCANet in both global and local forms to attend to global and local contexts, respectively.
• Non-Local Deep Features for Salient Object Detection
  1 Jul 2017 2 repositories listed
  Saliency detection aims to highlight the most relevant objects in an image.
• A Deep Spatial Contextual Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Network for Saliency Detection
  6 Oct 2016 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Furthermore, the proposed DSCLSTM model can significantly boost the saliency detection performance by incorporating both global spatial interconnections and scene context modulation, which may uncover novel inspirations…
• Visual Saliency Detection Based on Multiscale Deep CNN Features
  7 Sep 2016 2 repositories listed
  The penultimate layer of our neural network has been confirmed to be a discriminative high-level feature vector for saliency detection, which we call deep contrast feature.
• Deep Saliency with Encoded Low level Distance Map and High Level Features
  19 Apr 2016 2 repositories listed
  Recent advances in saliency detection have utilized deep learning to obtain high level features to detect salient regions in a scene.
• Inner and Inter Label Propagation: Salient Object Detection in the Wild
  27 May 2015 2 repositories listed
  For most natural images, some boundary superpixels serve as the background labels and the saliency of other superpixels are determined by ranking their similarities to the boundary labels based on an inner propagation…
• A Deep Learning Framework for Visual Attention Prediction and Analysis of News Interfaces
  21 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  News outlets' competition for attention in news interfaces has highlighted the need for demographically-aware saliency prediction models.
• Copy-Move Detection in Optical Microscopy: A Segmentation Network and A Dataset
  13 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  With increasing revelations of academic fraud, detecting forged experimental images in the biomedical field has become a public concern.

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