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Toward Size-Invariant Salient Object Detection: A Generic Evaluation.

Shilong Bao, Qianqian Xu, Feiran Li

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

|September 16, 2025

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Existing Salient Object Detection (SOD) metrics are biased towards larger objects. We introduce a Size-Invariant Evaluation (SIEva) framework and optimization (SIOpt) to accurately assess and improve detection across all object sizes.

Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Image Processing

Background:

Current Salient Object Detection (SOD) evaluation metrics exhibit size sensitivity.
Existing metrics disproportionately weigh larger objects, potentially overlooking smaller, important salient objects.
This size bias leads to inaccurate performance assessments and practical limitations in SOD systems.

Purpose of the Study:

To address the fundamental issue of size-invariant evaluation in Salient Object Detection.
To propose a novel framework and optimization method for unbiased SOD performance assessment.
To enhance the detection capabilities of salient objects across a wide range of sizes.

Main Methods:

Theoretical derivation to expose the size sensitivity of existing SOD metrics.

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Published on: December 15, 2023

Development of a generic Size-Invariant Evaluation (SIEva) framework.

Introduction of a model-agnostic optimization framework (SIOpt) for size-invariant SOD.

Generalization analysis of SOD methods and validation of new evaluation protocols.

Main Results:

Demonstrated that current SOD metrics are inherently size-sensitive, with evaluation outcomes proportional to region size.
Proposed SIEva framework effectively mitigates size imbalance by evaluating separable components individually.
SIOpt framework significantly enhances salient object detection across diverse sizes.
Experimental results validate the efficacy of the proposed SIEva and SIOpt approaches.

Conclusions:

Existing SOD evaluation metrics require revision due to inherent size bias.
The proposed SIEva framework offers a more equitable and accurate method for evaluating SOD performance.
SIOpt provides a powerful, model-agnostic tool to improve SOD systems for all object sizes.
This work advances the field by establishing size-invariant evaluation and optimization principles for Salient Object Detection.