HVPNet: A Bio-Inspired Network for General Salient and Camouflaged Object Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31496v1
• Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:14:11 GMT
• Title: HVPNet: A Bio-Inspired Network for General Salient and Camouflaged Object Detection
• Abstract summary: We propose HVPNet, a simple yet general bio-inspired computational architecture for object detection.<n> Drawing on the multi-layered information integration of the retina as a conceptual metaphor, we designed a Retinal Integration Module (RIM)<n>To fully exploit these features, we further design a cortical decoder (CD) that breaks down the decoding process into low- and high-level visual stages.
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• Abstract: In recent years, most research on multimodal salient object detection (SOD) and camouflaged object detection (COD) typically aims to improve performance through complex cross-modal feature fusion and decoding structures. However, this approach leads to an excessively large model parameter scale and often fails to deliver satisfactory detection performance due to structural redundancy. In contrast, the human visual process is able to efficiently perform salient and camouflaged object identification without such complex structures. This contrast raises an important question: Can we draw conceptual inspiration from the human visual process to achieve a simpler modeling strategy, and still realize accurate and efficient object detection? To answer this question, we propose HVPNet, a simple yet general bio-inspired computational architecture. Drawing on the multi-layered information integration of the retina as a conceptual metaphor, we designed a Retinal Integration Module (RIM), which effectively integrates multimodal features through a level-specific multi-stage integration strategy. To fully exploit these features, we further design a cortical decoder (CD) that breaks down the decoding process into low- and high-level visual stages, abstracting the hierarchical processing in the human visual cortex. Benefiting from these designs, HVPNet can readily extend to seven tasks across four modalities. Without bells and whistles, it establishes an excellent accuracy-efficiency trade-off across 22 datasets spanning these seven tasks. Our code is available at https://github.com/jiaweiXu1029/HVPNet.

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