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most citedVST++: Efficient and Stronger Visual Saliency Transformer

57 citations · 236 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CV2026

Dynamic-Robust Photometric-Semantic Reconstruction for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding

Boyu Cai, Li Yang, Yan Xu +6

The integration of novel view synthesis (NVS) and open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS) has recently yielded powerful feed-forward 3D foundation models. However, their inherent relian…

cs.CV2026

Gaze-DETR: Top-Down Guidance Through Priority Maps for Infrared Weak-Small UAV Detection with DETR

Nian Liu, Yuxin Yang, Shubo Lin +6

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) remains challenging because tiny, low-contrast targets are easily overwhelmed by clutter, noise, or occlusion. Conventional single-frame and…

cs.CV2026

MI-DETR: A Strong Baseline for Moving Infrared Small Target Detection with Motion Integration

Nian Liu, Jin Gao, Shubo Lin +9

Detecting moving infrared small targets is challenging because tiny, low-contrast targets occupy few pixels and are easily obscured by dynamic backgrounds. Existing multi-frame met…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

VSCode: General Visual Salient and Camouflaged Object Detection with 2D Prompt Learning

Ziyang Luo, Nian Liu, Wangbo Zhao +5

Salient object detection (SOD) and camouflaged object detection (COD) are related yet distinct binary mapping tasks. These tasks involve multiple modalities, sharing commonalities…

cs.CV2023

GP-NeRF: Generalized Perception NeRF for Context-Aware 3D Scene Understanding

Hao Li, Dingwen Zhang, Yalun Dai +5

Applying NeRF to downstream perception tasks for scene understanding and representation is becoming increasingly popular. Most existing methods treat semantic prediction as an addi…

cs.CV2023★ 57 cited

VST++: Efficient and Stronger Visual Saliency Transformer

Nian Liu, Ziyang Luo, Ni Zhang +1

While previous CNN-based models have exhibited promising results for salient object detection (SOD), their ability to explore global long-range dependencies is restricted. Our prev…

cs.CV2023

Multi-grained Temporal Prototype Learning for Few-shot Video Object Segmentation

Nian Liu, Kepan Nan, Wangbo Zhao +7

Few-Shot Video Object Segmentation (FSVOS) aims to segment objects in a query video with the same category defined by a few annotated support images. However, this task was seldom…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

CalibNet: Dual-branch Cross-modal Calibration for RGB-D Salient Instance Segmentation

Jialun Pei, Tao Jiang, He Tang +4

We propose a novel approach for RGB-D salient instance segmentation using a dual-branch cross-modal feature calibration architecture called CalibNet. Our method simultaneously cali…

cs.CV2023

Discriminative Co-Saliency and Background Mining Transformer for Co-Salient Object Detection

Long Li, Junwei Han, Ni Zhang +5

Most previous co-salient object detection works mainly focus on extracting co-salient cues via mining the consistency relations across images while ignoring explicit exploration of…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Boosting Low-Data Instance Segmentation by Unsupervised Pre-training with Saliency Prompt

Hao Li, Dingwen Zhang, Nian Liu +5

Recently, inspired by DETR variants, query-based end-to-end instance segmentation (QEIS) methods have outperformed CNN-based models on large-scale datasets. Yet they would lose eff…

cs.CV2022★ 37 cited

Intermediate Prototype Mining Transformer for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation

Yuanwei Liu, Nian Liu, Xiwen Yao +1

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment the target objects in query under the condition of a few annotated support images. Most previous works strive to mine more effective…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Structured Attention Composition for Temporal Action Localization

Le Yang, Junwei Han, Tao Zhao +2

Temporal action localization aims at localizing action instances from untrimmed videos. Existing works have designed various effective modules to precisely localize action instance…

cs.CV2022★ 6 cited

Learning Non-target Knowledge for Few-shot Semantic Segmentation

Yuanwei Liu, Nian Liu, Qinglong Cao +3

Existing studies in few-shot semantic segmentation only focus on mining the target object information, however, often are hard to tell ambiguous regions, especially in non-target r…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Light Field Saliency Detection with Dual Local Graph Learning andReciprocative Guidance

Nian Liu, Wangbo Zhao, Dingwen Zhang +2

The application of light field data in salient object de-tection is becoming increasingly popular recently. The diffi-culty lies in how to effectively fuse the features within the…

cs.CV2021

Summarize and Search: Learning Consensus-aware Dynamic Convolution for Co-Saliency Detection

Ni Zhang, Junwei Han, Nian Liu +1

Humans perform co-saliency detection by first summarizing the consensus knowledge in the whole group and then searching corresponding objects in each image. Previous methods usuall…

cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

Instance-Level Relative Saliency Ranking with Graph Reasoning

Nian Liu, Long Li, Wangbo Zhao +2

Conventional salient object detection models cannot differentiate the importance of different salient objects. Recently, two works have been proposed to detect saliency ranking by…

cs.CV2021★ 25 cited

Context-aware Cross-level Fusion Network for Camouflaged Object Detection

Yujia Sun, Geng Chen, Tao Zhou +2

Camouflaged object detection (COD) is a challenging task due to the low boundary contrast between the object and its surroundings. In addition, the appearance of camouflaged object…

cs.CV2021

Weakly Supervised Video Salient Object Detection

Wangbo Zhao, Jing Zhang, Long Li +3

Significant performance improvement has been achieved for fully-supervised video salient object detection with the pixel-wise labeled training datasets, which are time-consuming an…

cs.CV2021

Visual Saliency Transformer

Nian Liu, Ni Zhang, Kaiyuan Wan +2

Existing state-of-the-art saliency detection methods heavily rely on CNN-based architectures. Alternatively, we rethink this task from a convolution-free sequence-to-sequence persp…

cs.CV2021★ 22 cited

Salient Object Detection via Integrity Learning

Mingchen Zhuge, Deng-Ping Fan, Nian Liu +3

Although current salient object detection (SOD) works have achieved significant progress, they are limited when it comes to the integrity of the predicted salient regions. We defin…

cs.CV2020★ 5 cited

Learning Selective Mutual Attention and Contrast for RGB-D Saliency Detection

Nian Liu, Ni Zhang, Ling Shao +1

How to effectively fuse cross-modal information is the key problem for RGB-D salient object detection. Early fusion and the result fusion schemes fuse RGB and depth information at…

cs.CV2018★ 1 cited

PiCANet: Pixel-wise Contextual Attention Learning for Accurate Saliency Detection

Nian Liu, Junwei Han, Ming-Hsuan Yang

In saliency detection, every pixel needs contextual information to make saliency prediction. Previous models usually incorporate contexts holistically. However, for each pixel, usu…

cs.CV2017★ 51 cited

PiCANet: Learning Pixel-wise Contextual Attention for Saliency Detection

Nian Liu, Junwei Han, Ming-Hsuan Yang

Contexts play an important role in the saliency detection task. However, given a context region, not all contextual information is helpful for the final task. In this paper, we pro…

cs.CV2016★ 21 cited

A Deep Spatial Contextual Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Network for Saliency Detection

Nian Liu, Junwei Han

Traditional saliency models usually adopt hand-crafted image features and human-designed mechanisms to calculate local or global contrast. In this paper, we propose a novel computa…