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New S3AM framework enhances multi-modal salient object detection

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Researchers have developed S$^3$AM, a novel single-stream framework for multi-modal salient object detection. This approach integrates a reliability-calibrated frequency adapter with the Segment Anything Model (SAM) backbone to reduce computational redundancy. The framework employs a mixture of frequency experts and a dual-gate calibration mechanism to selectively propagate calibrated residual information across transformer stages, while a hypernetwork-guided decoder combines semantic mask features with Mamba-based structural detail recovery. Experiments show S$^3$AM achieves competitive performance with a significantly smaller number of trainable parameters. AI

IMPACT This research offers a more efficient approach to salient object detection by reducing computational costs and trainable parameters.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Ruichao Hou, Boyue Xu, Tongwei Ren, Dongming Zhou, Gangshan Wu, Jinde Cao ·

    S$^3$AM: A Single-Stream SAM with Reliability-Calibrated Frequency Adapter for Multi-modal Salient Object Detection

    arXiv:2608.17475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision foundation models have recently advanced multi-modal salient object detection (MSOD) through parameter-efficient tuning and prompt learning. However, existing Segment Anything Model (SAM)-adapted MSOD methods often rely on du…

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