Video Salient Object Detection

Video salient object detection (VSOD) is significantly essential for understanding the underlying mechanism behind HVS during free-viewing in general and instrumental to a wide range of real-world applications, e.g., video segmentation, video captioning, video compression, autonomous driving, robotic interaction, weakly supervised attention. Besides its academic value and practical significance, VSOD presents great difficulties due to the challenges carried by video data (diverse motion patterns, occlusions, blur, large object deformations, etc.) and the inherent complexity of human visual attention behavior (i.e., selective attention allocation, attention shift) during dynamic scenes. Online benchmark: http://dpfan.net/davsod.

( Image credit: Shifting More Attention to Video Salient Object Detection, CVPR2019-Best Paper Finalist )