Salient Object Detection

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

6 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 6 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.

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.

Libraries

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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

2 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 276 papers with code (527 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.
• Reverse Attention-Based Residual Network for Salient Object Detection
  22 Jan 2020 6 repositories listed
  Benefiting from the quick development of deep convolutional neural networks, especially fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs), remarkable progresses have been achieved on salient object detection recently.
• 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.
• HarDNet-MSEG: A Simple Encoder-Decoder Polyp Segmentation Neural Network that Achieves over 0.9 Mean Dice and 86 FPS
  18 Jan 2021 4 repositories listed
  The decoder part is inspired by the Cascaded Partial Decoder, known for fast and accurate salient object detection.
• 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).
• CIR-Net: Cross-modality Interaction and Refinement for RGB-D Salient Object Detection
  6 Oct 2022 3 repositories listed
  Focusing on the issue of how to effectively capture and utilize cross-modality information in RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) task, we present a convolutional neural network (CNN) model, named CIR-Net, based on the…
• 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…
• GCoNet+: A Stronger Group Collaborative Co-Salient Object Detector
  30 May 2022 3 repositories listed
  In this paper, we present a novel end-to-end group collaborative learning network, termed GCoNet+, which can effectively and efficiently (250 fps) identify co-salient objects in natural scenes.
• 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…
• Salient Object Detection via Integrity Learning
  19 Jan 2021 3 repositories listed
  We define the concept of integrity at both a micro and macro level.
• Dense Attention Fluid Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images
  26 Nov 2020 3 repositories listed
  Despite the remarkable advances in visual saliency analysis for natural scene images (NSIs), salient object detection (SOD) for optical remote sensing images (RSIs) still remains an open and challenging problem.
• 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.
• Seg-R1: Segmentation Can Be Surprisingly Simple with Reinforcement Learning
  27 Jun 2025 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 15 of 23 samples · 8 unverified
  We present Seg-R1, a preliminary exploration of using reinforcement learning (RL) to enhance the pixel-level understanding and reasoning capabilities of large multimodal models (LMMs).
• Unified Unsupervised Salient Object Detection via Knowledge Transfer
  23 Apr 2024 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 12 of 19 samples · 7 unverified
  Firstly, we propose a Progressive Curriculum Learning-based Saliency Distilling (PCL-SD) mechanism to extract saliency cues from a pre-trained deep network.
• VSCode: General Visual Salient and Camouflaged Object Detection with 2D Prompt Learning
  25 Nov 2023 2 repositories listed
  Salient object detection (SOD) and camouflaged object detection (COD) are related yet distinct binary mapping tasks.
• Salient Object Detection in RGB-D Videos
  24 Oct 2023 2 repositories listed
  Ablation experiments were performed on both pseudo and realistic RGB-D video datasets to demonstrate the advantages of individual modules as well as the necessity of introducing realistic depth.
• Point-aware Interaction and CNN-induced Refinement Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection
  17 Aug 2023 2 repositories listed
  By integrating complementary information from RGB image and depth map, the ability of salient object detection (SOD) for complex and challenging scenes can be improved.
• Explicit Visual Prompting for Universal Foreground Segmentations
  29 May 2023 2 repositories listed
  We take inspiration from the widely-used pre-training and then prompt tuning protocols in NLP and propose a new visual prompting model, named Explicit Visual Prompting (EVP).
• Memory-aided Contrastive Consensus Learning for Co-salient Object Detection
  28 Feb 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 7 samples · 5 unverified
  To learn better group consensus, we propose the Group Consensus Aggregation Module (GCAM) to abstract the common features of each image group; meanwhile, to make the consensus representation more discriminative, we…
• Does Thermal Really Always Matter for RGB-T Salient Object Detection?
  9 Oct 2022 2 repositories listed
  In addition, considering the role of thermal modality, we set up different cross-modality interaction mechanisms in the encoding phase and the decoding phase.
• Global-and-Local Collaborative Learning for Co-Salient Object Detection
  19 Apr 2022 2 repositories listed
  In this paper, we propose a global-and-local collaborative learning architecture, which includes a global correspondence modeling (GCM) and a local correspondence modeling (LCM) to capture comprehensive inter-image…

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.