RGB Salient Object Detection

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

13 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 13 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted. 10 shown of 13 until expanded.

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

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

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

3 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 99 papers with code (222 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.

• Res2Net: A New Multi-scale Backbone Architecture
  2 Apr 2019 34 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 9 samples · 6 unverified · 9 pointer-only (licence)
  We evaluate the Res2Net block on all these models and demonstrate consistent performance gains over baseline models on widely-used datasets, e.
• 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).
• RGB-D Salient Object Detection: A Survey
  1 Aug 2020 9 repositories listed
  Further, considering that the light field can also provide depth maps, we review SOD models and popular benchmark datasets from this domain as well.
• EGNet: Edge Guidance Network for Salient Object Detection
  1 Oct 2019 7 repositories listed
  In the second step, we integrate the local edge information and global location information to obtain the salient edge features.
• A Simple Pooling-Based Design for Real-Time Salient Object Detection
  21 Apr 2019 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 3 samples · 2 unverified
  We further design a feature aggregation module (FAM) to make the coarse-level semantic information well fused with the fine-level features from the top-down pathway.
• 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.
• 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…
• F3Net: Fusion, Feedback and Focus for Salient Object Detection
  26 Nov 2019 4 repositories listed
  Furthermore, different from binary cross entropy, the proposed PPA loss doesn't treat pixels equally, which can synthesize the local structure information of a pixel to guide the network to focus more on local details.
• 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).
• Revisiting Image Pyramid Structure for High Resolution Salient Object Detection
  20 Sep 2022 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 11 samples · 8 unverified
  Salient object detection (SOD) has been in the spotlight recently, yet has been studied less for high-resolution (HR) images.
• 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…
• Suppress and Balance: A Simple Gated Network for Salient Object Detection
  16 Jul 2020 3 repositories listed
  With the help of multilevel gate units, the valuable context information from the encoder can be optimally transmitted to the decoder.
• 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.
• EGNet:Edge Guidance Network for Salient Object Detection
  22 Aug 2019 3 repositories listed
  In the second step, we integrate the local edge information and global location information to obtain the salient edge features.
• BASNet: Boundary-Aware Salient Object Detection
  1 Jun 2019 3 repositories listed
  In this paper, we propose a predict-refine architecture, BASNet, and a new hybrid loss for Boundary-Aware Salient object detection.
• Reverse Attention for Salient Object Detection
  26 Jul 2018 3 repositories listed
  Benefit from the quick development of deep learning techniques, salient object detection has achieved remarkable progresses recently.
• Disentangled High Quality Salient Object Detection
  8 Aug 2021 2 repositories listed
  As a pixel-wise classification task, LRSCN is designed to capture sufficient semantics at low-resolution to identify the definite salient, background and uncertain image regions.
• Siamese Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection and Beyond
  26 Aug 2020 2 repositories listed
  Inspired by the observation that RGB and depth modalities actually present certain commonality in distinguishing salient objects, a novel joint learning and densely cooperative fusion (JL-DCF) architecture is designed…
• 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.
• Cross-Modal Weighting Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection
  9 Jul 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified
  In this paper, we propose a novel Cross-Modal Weighting (CMW) strategy to encourage comprehensive interactions between RGB and depth channels for RGB-D SOD.
• Re-thinking Co-Salient Object Detection
  7 Jul 2020 2 repositories listed
  CoSOD is an emerging and rapidly growing extension of salient object detection (SOD), which aims to detect the co-occurring salient objects in a group of images.
• RGBT Salient Object Detection: A Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark
  7 Jul 2020 2 repositories listed
  Salient object detection in complex scenes and environments is a challenging research topic.
• Bifurcated backbone strategy for RGB-D salient object detection
  6 Jul 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 5 samples · 2 unverified
  In particular, first, we propose to regroup the multi-level features into teacher and student features using a bifurcated backbone strategy (BBS).
• Multi-interactive Dual-decoder for RGB-thermal Salient Object Detection
  5 May 2020 2 repositories listed
  Then, we design a novel dual-decoder to conduct the interactions of multi-level features, two modalities and global contexts.
• Global Context-Aware Progressive Aggregation Network for Salient Object Detection
  2 Mar 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 13 samples · 8 unverified · 13 pointer-only (licence)
  Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved competitive performance in salient object detection, in which how to learn effective and comprehensive features plays a critical role.
• A Fixation-based 360° Benchmark Dataset for Salient Object Detection
  22 Jan 2020 2 repositories listed
  Experimental results show a limitation of the current methods when used for SOD in panoramic images, which indicates the proposed dataset is challenging.
• 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…
• Rethinking RGB-D Salient Object Detection: Models, Data Sets, and Large-Scale Benchmarks
  15 Jul 2019 2 repositories listed
  The use of RGB-D information for salient object detection has been extensively explored in recent years.
• Contrast Prior and Fluid Pyramid Integration for RGBD Salient Object Detection
  1 Jun 2019 2 repositories listed
  The large availability of depth sensors provides valuable complementary information for salient object detection (SOD) in RGBD images.
• 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.

Syntology lines on 9 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.