WXSOD: A Benchmark for Robust Salient Object Detection in Adverse Weather Conditions

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Autori principali: Chen, Quan, Yang, Xiong, Zheng, Bolun, Lu, Rongfeng, Yang, Xiaokai, Zhang, Qianyu, Liu, Yu, Zhou, Xiaofei
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author Chen, Quan
Yang, Xiong
Zheng, Bolun
Lu, Rongfeng
Yang, Xiaokai
Zhang, Qianyu
Liu, Yu
Zhou, Xiaofei
author_facet Chen, Quan
Yang, Xiong
Zheng, Bolun
Lu, Rongfeng
Yang, Xiaokai
Zhang, Qianyu
Liu, Yu
Zhou, Xiaofei
contents Salient object detection (SOD) in complex environments remains a challenging research topic. Most existing methods perform well in natural scenes with negligible noise, and tend to leverage multi-modal information (e.g., depth and infrared) to enhance accuracy. However, few studies are concerned with the damage of weather noise on SOD performance due to the lack of dataset with pixel-wise annotations. To bridge this gap, this paper introduces a novel Weather-eXtended Salient Object Detection (WXSOD) dataset. It consists of 14,945 RGB images with diverse weather noise, along with the corresponding ground truth annotations and weather labels. To verify algorithm generalization, WXSOD contains two test sets, i.e., a synthesized test set and a real test set. The former is generated by adding weather noise to clean images, while the latter contains real-world weather noise. Based on WXSOD, we propose an efficient baseline, termed Weather-aware Feature Aggregation Network (WFANet), which adopts a fully supervised two-branch architecture. Specifically, the weather prediction branch mines weather-related deep features, while the saliency detection branch fuses semantic features extracted from the backbone with weather features for SOD. Comprehensive comparisons against 17 SOD methods shows that our WFANet achieves superior performance on WXSOD. The code and benchmark results will be made publicly available at https://github.com/C-water/WXSOD
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spellingShingle WXSOD: A Benchmark for Robust Salient Object Detection in Adverse Weather Conditions
Chen, Quan
Yang, Xiong
Zheng, Bolun
Lu, Rongfeng
Yang, Xiaokai
Zhang, Qianyu
Liu, Yu
Zhou, Xiaofei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Salient object detection (SOD) in complex environments remains a challenging research topic. Most existing methods perform well in natural scenes with negligible noise, and tend to leverage multi-modal information (e.g., depth and infrared) to enhance accuracy. However, few studies are concerned with the damage of weather noise on SOD performance due to the lack of dataset with pixel-wise annotations. To bridge this gap, this paper introduces a novel Weather-eXtended Salient Object Detection (WXSOD) dataset. It consists of 14,945 RGB images with diverse weather noise, along with the corresponding ground truth annotations and weather labels. To verify algorithm generalization, WXSOD contains two test sets, i.e., a synthesized test set and a real test set. The former is generated by adding weather noise to clean images, while the latter contains real-world weather noise. Based on WXSOD, we propose an efficient baseline, termed Weather-aware Feature Aggregation Network (WFANet), which adopts a fully supervised two-branch architecture. Specifically, the weather prediction branch mines weather-related deep features, while the saliency detection branch fuses semantic features extracted from the backbone with weather features for SOD. Comprehensive comparisons against 17 SOD methods shows that our WFANet achieves superior performance on WXSOD. The code and benchmark results will be made publicly available at https://github.com/C-water/WXSOD
title WXSOD: A Benchmark for Robust Salient Object Detection in Adverse Weather Conditions
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12250