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A Color Saliency Model for Salient Objects Detection in Natural Scenes

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Advances in Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2010)

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Detection of salient objects is very useful for object recognition, content-based image/video retrieval, scene analysis and image/video compression. In this paper, we propose a color saliency model for salient objects detection in natural scenes. In our color saliency model, different color features are extracted and analyzed. For different color features, two efficient saliency measurements are proposed to compute different saliency maps. And a feature combination strategy is presented to combine multiple saliency maps into one integrated saliency map. After that, a segmentation method is employed to locate salient objects’ regions in scenes. Finally, a psychological ranking measurement is proposed for salient objects competition. In this way, we can obtain both salient objects and their rankings in one natural scene to simulate location shift in human visual attention. The experimental results indicate that our model is effective, robust and fast for salient object detection in natural scenes, also simple to implement.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, P.R. China

    Minghui Tian, Shouhong Wan & Lihua Yue

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  1. University of Oldenburg, Germany

    Susanne Boll

  2. University of Texas at San Antonio,, TX, San Antonio, USA

    Qi Tian

  3. Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, P.R. China

    Lei Zhang

  4. Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing, China

    Zili Zhang

  5. School of Engineering and Information Technology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Vic, 3125, Australia

    Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen

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Tian, M., Wan, S., Yue, L. (2010). A Color Saliency Model for Salient Objects Detection in Natural Scenes. In: Boll, S., Tian, Q., Zhang, L., Zhang, Z., Chen, YP.P. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Modeling. MMM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5916. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11301-7_26

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