# Concept Guided Co-salient Object Detection

Source: [Concept Guided Co-salient Object Detection](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa79851e209131cea7dfc6>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-26T04:59:47.353Z

Authors: Jiayi Zhu, Qing Guo, Felix Juefei-Xu, Yihao Huang, Yang Liu, Geguang Pu

Published: 2024-12-21T12:47:12.000Z

## Abstract

Co-salient object detection (Co-SOD) aims to identify common salient objects across a group of related images. While recent methods have made notable progress, they typically rely on low-level visual patterns and lack semantic priors, limiting their detection performance. We propose ConceptCoSOD, a concept-guided framework that introduces high-level semantic knowledge to enhance co-saliency detection. By extracting shared text-based concepts from the input image group, ConceptCoSOD provides semantic guidance that anchors the detection process. To further improve concept quality, we analyze the effect of diffusion timesteps and design a resampling strategy that selects more informative steps for learning robust concepts. This semantic prior, combined with the resampling-enhanced representation, enables accurate and consistent segmentation even in challenging visual conditions. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets and five corrupted settings demonstrate that ConceptCoSOD significantly outperforms existing methods in both accuracy and generalization.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16609>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.16609.pdf>)
