Salient Object Detection Based on Shadowed Sets and Illumination-Guided Network
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Abstract
Salient object detection (SOD) aims to distinguish salient regions from non-salient ones in an image. In real-world scenarios, factors such as depth variation and surface reflection can interfere with the model's judgment, while illumination uncertainty further intensifies this interference. As a result, the uncertainty in salient boundary detection increases, leading to false or missed detections. To core with uncertainty inherent to the problem, we introduce the concept of shadowed set, which is an effective method to process the uncertainty problem. In this paper, we have designed an illumination-aware feature integration network by conducting dual-input feature integration under the implicit assistance of illumination maps. Firstly, we devised a determination of pixel-level salient area module, which extract illumination maps based on Retinex theory and obtain the main area of salient object based on shadowed set as the implicit feature of illumination. Next, we constructed a dual-modal compression module to solve the problem of feature alignment, which can use the dual-stream structure to process RGB and auxiliary inputs. Finally, multi-stage contextual complementary module can effectively recover fine object edges, and we use the outputs from the last three stages to supervise the training of the entire model. The state originality came from our previous work on illumination maps and shadowed sets, and we creatively combined them with the SOD to process uncertainty of salient area. The experiments demonstrate that our method exhibits excellent performance on multiple RGB-based datasets, at the same time, it also demonstrates unique performance on underwater and challenging scenes.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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