Title
Exploiting multiple contexts for saliency detection.
Abstract
A salient object detection method by extensively modeling contextual information in both the saliency feature extraction and the saliency optimization procedure is proposed. First, a sequence of multicontext features is extracted for each segmented image region. This multicontext feature encoding effectively represents the characteristics of image regions and is further mapped to the initial saliency value estimation using a nonlinear regressor. Second, contextual information is also utilized to optimize the initial saliency map, which is realized by constructing a region-level conditional random field (CRF). As such, the quality of the initial coarse saliency maps is promoted in a more principled manner. Third, multiple CRFs, defined over different scales of segmentation, are calculated and integrated so that different ranges of contextual information could contribute to the saliency optimization. Eventually, consistent saliency maps with uniformly highlighted salient regions and clear boundaries are generated. The proposed method is extensively evaluated on three public benchmark datasets, and experimental results demonstrate that our method can produce promising performance when compared to state-of-the-art salient object detection approaches. (C) 2016 SPIE and IS&T
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1117/1.JEI.25.6.063005
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Keywords
Field
DocType
salient object detection,multicontext feature,contextual optimization,conditional random field
Conditional random field,Computer vision,Kadir–Brady saliency detector,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Segmentation,Salience (neuroscience),Image segmentation,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,CRFS,Salient
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
6
1017-9909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mengnan Du19413.54
Xingming Wu24313.16
Chen Weihai319038.21
Jianhua Wang4114.69