Attention enhanced machine instinctive vision with human-inspired saliency detection

Habib Khan, Muhammad Talha Usman, Imad Rida, Jakeoung Koo

Abstract: Highlights•Multi-scale feature extraction enhances SOD accuracy using EfficientNet-B7 backbone.•SOFA module refines spatial features, boosting saliency map precision and sharpness.•CACR block captures multi-scale context with dilated convolutions and channel attention.•Progressive feature fusion and augmentation avoid feature loss and improve robustness under varied conditions.