# Centralized Information Interaction for Salient Object Detection Source: [Centralized Information Interaction for Salient Object Detection]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-27T06:05:44.223Z Authors: Jiang-Jiang Liu, Zhi-Ang Liu, Ming-Ming Cheng Published: 2020-12-21T12:42:06.000Z ## Abstract The U-shape structure has shown its advantage in salient object detection for efficiently combining multi-scale features. However, most existing U-shape based methods focused on improving the bottom-up and top-down pathways while ignoring the connections between them. This paper shows that by centralizing these connections, we can achieve the cross-scale information interaction among them, hence obtaining semantically stronger and positionally more precise features. To inspire the potential of the newly proposed strategy, we further design a relative global calibration module that can simultaneously process multi-scale inputs without spatial interpolation. Benefiting from the above strategy and module, our proposed approach can aggregate features more effectively while introducing only a few additional parameters. Our approach can cooperate with various existing U-shape-based salient object detection methods by substituting the connections between the bottom-up and top-down pathways. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach performs favorably against the previous state-of-the-arts on five widely used benchmarks with less computational complexity. The source code will be publicly available. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()