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RGB-D salient object detection: A survey

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Zhou, Tao, Fan, Deng-Ping, Cheng, Ming-Ming, Shen, Jianbing, Shao, Ling·2021·Computational Visual Media

Abstract

Salient object detection, which simulates human visual perception in locating the most significant object(s) in a scene, has been widely applied to various computer vision tasks. Now, the advent of depth sensors means that depth maps can easily be captured; this additional spatial information can boost the performance of salient object detection. Although various RGB-D based salient object detection models with promising performance have been proposed over the past several years, an in-depth understanding of these models and the challenges in this field remains lacking. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of RGB-D based salient object detection models from various perspectives, and review related benchmark datasets in detail. Further, as light fields can also provide depth maps, we review salient object detection models and popular benchmark datasets from this domain too. Moreover, to investigate the ability of existing models to detect salient objects, we have carried out a comprehensive attribute-based evaluation of several representative RGB-D based salient object detection models. Finally, we discuss several challenges and open directions of RGB-D based salient object detection for future research. All collected models, benchmark datasets, datasets constructed for attribute-based evaluation, and related code are publicly available at https://github.com/taozh2017/RGBD-SODsurvey.

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Authors
Zhou, T., Fan, D.-P., Cheng, M.-M., Shen, J., & Shao, L.
Affiliations
  • Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AE)
  • Nankai University (CN)
Corresponding author
Fan, Deng-Ping
Venue
Computational Visual Media
Published
2021-03
Volume
7
Issue
1
Pages
37-69
ISSN
  • 2096-0433 (ISSN-L)
  • 2096-0662
OpenAlex
W3046597754
Cited by
331
References
227
Citations by year
2026: 33 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 50 · 2023: 70 · 2022: 76 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 1
FWCI
3.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Computational Visual Media (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (61922046, 2018AAA0100400)
  • Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City (17JCJQJC43700)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Vision and Imaging
Keywords
salient object detection, RGB-D, depth images, light field, benchmark dataset, visual perception, depth sensors

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