Title
Saliency For Free: Saliency Prediction As A Side-Effect Of Object Recognition
Abstract
Saliency is the perceptual capacity of our visual system to focus our attention (i.e. gaze) on relevant objects instead of the background. So far, computational methods for saliency estimation required the explicit generation of a saliency map, process which is usually achieved via eyetracking experiments on still images. This is a tedious process that needs to be repeated for each new dataset. In the current paper, we demonstrate that is possible to automatically generate saliency maps without ground-truth. In our approach, saliency maps are learned as a side effect of object recognition. Extensive experiments carried out on both real and synthetic datasets demonstrated that our approach is able to generate accurate saliency maps, achieving competitive results when compared with supervised methods. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.patrec.2021.05.015
PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Saliency maps, Unsupervised learning, Object recognition
Journal
150
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0167-8655
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carola Figueroa-Flores100.34
David Berga202.03
Joost van der Weijer300.34
Bogdan Raducanu425129.79