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On the one hand, the feature transmission process often neglects the constraints and complementary effects of high-level features on low-level features, leading to insufficient feature interaction and weakened model representation. On the other hand, decoder architectures generally rely on simple cascaded structures, which fail to adequately exploit and utilize contextual information. To address these challenges, this study proposes a Hierarchical Semantic Interaction Module to enhance salient object detection performance in optical remote sensing scenarios. The module introduces foreground content modeling and a hierarchical semantic interaction mechanism within a multi-scale feature space, reinforcing the synergy and complementarity among features at different levels. This effectively highlights multi-scale and multi-type salient regions in complex backgrounds. Extensive experiments on multiple optical remote sensing datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Specifically, on the EORSSD dataset, our full model integrating both CA and PA modules improves the max F-measure from 0.8826 to 0.9100 (\u21912.74%), increases maxE from 0.9603 to 0.9727 (\u21911.24%), and enhances the S-measure from 0.9026 to 0.9295 (\u21912.69%) compared with the baseline. These results clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed modules and verify the robustness and strong generalization capability of our method in complex remote sensing scenarios.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jimaging11120453","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,17]],"date-time":"2025-12-17T09:43:46Z","timestamp":1765964626000},"page":"453","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images Based on Hierarchical Semantic Interaction"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-8519-6596","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jingfan","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Journalism and Communication, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi\u2019an 710062, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6270-4263","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Northwest University, Xi\u2019an 710127, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jinwen","family":"Xing","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Northwest University, Xi\u2019an 710127, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mingquan","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Journalism and Communication, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi\u2019an 710062, China"},{"name":"School of Computer Science, Northwest University, Xi\u2019an 710127, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guohua","family":"Geng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Northwest University, Xi\u2019an 710127, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Yang, H., Liu, Z., Cui, H., Ma, N., Wang, H., Zhang, C., and Song, Y. 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