“…We compare with 18 state-of-the-art SOD methods, including PiCANet [22], AFNet [10], BANet [30], EG-Net [52], SCRN [40], PoolNet [20], CPD [39], BASNet [27], GateNet [53], U2Net [28], DFI [19], GCPANet [3], ITSD [55], DNA [23], PurNet [17], CTDNet [54], EDN [38] and SHNet [50] to verify the effectiveness of our method. The saliency maps published by the authors of the above methods are used and evaluated using the same validation code for a fair comparison.…”