Seeing the Unseen: Camouflaged Object Detection Beyond the Visible Spectrum

arXiv:2608.30355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in camouflaged object detection (COD) have led to substantial progress in challenging low-visibility scenarios, with pioneering studies demonstrating notable success in localizing objects in camouflaged scenes. Despite these achievements, existing approaches predominantly rely on conventional three-channel RGB imagery, thereby constraining the available visual information to a limited spectral range. Multispectral images offer a wide range of information about a scene by capturing fine-grained spectral signatures. Hence, by leveraging multispectral images for COD, we introduce a novel approach to detect camouflaged objects from the corresponding multispectral inputs. In particular, we propose an end-to-end framework, extbf{extit{MSFormer}}, that takes a multispectral camouflaged image as input and predicts a binary mask for it. Additionally, we also provide empirical justification for integrating multispectral bands for this complex low-vision task. Our extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, which outperforms existing methods.

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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-09-01