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Object proposals for salient object segmentation in videos

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Salient object segmentation in videos is generally broken up in a video segmentation part and a saliency assignment part. Recently, object proposals, which are used to segment the image, have had significant impact on many computer vision applications, including image segmentation, object detection, and recently saliency detection in still images. However, their usage has not yet been evaluated for salient object segmentation in videos. Therefore, in this paper, we investigate the application of object proposals to salient object segmentation in videos. In addition, we propose a new motion feature derived from the optical flow structure tensor for video saliency detection. Experiments on two standard benchmark datasets for video saliency show that the proposed motion feature improves saliency estimation results, and that object proposals are an efficient method for salient object segmentation. Results on the challenging SegTrack v2 and Fukuchi benchmark data sets show that we significantly outperform the state-of-the-art.

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  1. Note that you cannot know with certainty which of the λ’s is related to the object and which to the background, but you do know that a high λ2 indicates the presence of two local motion vectors.

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  1. National Engineering School of Sousse, ISITCOM Hammam Sousse, University of Sousse, Sahloul, 4054, Tunisia

    Rahma Kalboussi

  2. National Engineering School of Monastir, University of Monastir, Ibn Eljazzar street, Monastir, 5000, Tunisia

    Aymen Azaza

  3. Computer Vision Center, Edificio O Campus UAB, 08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola), Barcelona, Spain

    Joost van de Weijer

  4. National Engineering School of Sousse, University Of Sousse, Pole Technologique de Sousse, Route de Ceinture Sahloul, Sousse, 4054, Tunisia

    Mehrez Abdellaoui & Ali Douik

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Kalboussi, R., Azaza, A., van de Weijer, J. et al. Object proposals for salient object segmentation in videos. Multimed Tools Appl 79, 8677–8693 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-07781-0

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