Title
Multiscale fully convolutional network for image saliency.
Abstract
We focus on saliency estimation in digital images. We describe why it is important to adopt a datadriven model for such an illposed problem, allowing for a universal concept of "saliency" to naturally emerge from data that are typically annotated with drastically heterogeneous criteria. Our learning-based method also involves an explicit analysis of the input at multiple scales, in order to take into account images of different resolutions, depicting subjects of different sizes. Furthermore, despite training our model on binary ground truths only, we are able to output a continuous-valued confidence map, which represents the probability of each image pixel being salient. Every contribution of our method for saliency estimation is singularly tested according to a standard evaluation benchmark, and our final proposal proves to be very effective in a comparison with the stateof-the-art. (C) 2018 SPIE and IS&T
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1117/1.JEI.27.5.051221
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Keywords
Field
DocType
saliency estimation,foreground/background segmentation,fully convolutional neural network,multiscale
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Salience (neuroscience),Computer science,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
5
1017-9909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simone Bianco122624.48
Marco Buzzelli2294.91
Raimondo Schettini31476154.06