Spatiotemporal attention operator using isotropic contrast and regional homogeneity

Roman M. Palenichka; Ahmed Lakhssassi; Marek B. Zaremba

doi:10.1117/1.3599877

1 April 2011 Spatiotemporal attention operator using isotropic contrast and regional homogeneity

Roman M. Palenichka, Ahmed Lakhssassi, Marek B. Zaremba

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 20, Issue 2, 023018 (April 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3599877

Abstract

A multiscale operator for spatiotemporal isotropic attention is proposed to reliably extract attention points during image sequence analysis. Its consecutive local maxima indicate attention points as the centers of image fragments of variable size with high intensity contrast, region homogeneity, regional shape saliency, and temporal change presence. The scale-adaptive estimation of temporal change (motion) and its aggregation with the regional shape saliency contribute to the accurate determination of attention points in image sequences. Multilocation descriptors of an image sequence are extracted at the attention points in the form of a set of multidimensional descriptor vectors. A fast recursive implementation is also proposed to make the operator's computational complexity independent from the spatial scale size, which is the window size in the spatial averaging filter. Experiments on the accuracy of attention-point detection have proved the operator consistency and its high potential for multiscale feature extraction from image sequences.

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Roman M. Palenichka, Ahmed Lakhssassi, and Marek B. Zaremba "Spatiotemporal attention operator using isotropic contrast and regional homogeneity," Journal of Electronic Imaging 20(2), 023018 (1 April 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3599877

Published: 1 April 2011

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