28 December 2023 Salient object detection based on hierarchical segmentation and objectness-guided
Jinxia Shang, Runxin Li, Yun Liu
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Abstract

Unsupervised salient object detection aims to automatically detect important or attractive target objects in the scene without any user annotation. Compared to fully supervised, it can save a lot of manpower and resources invested in pixel-level annotation. However, the performance of existing unsupervised methods is still far from satisfactory because of the interference of complex backgrounds and the lack of knowledge in the semantic layer of scene objects. To solve these challenging problems, in this paper, we propose a new bottom-up method to better highlight the integral salient object region by exploiting the co-occurrence of saliency and objectness properties. Specifically, saliency estimation effectively utilizes low-level visual features based on high-quality hierarchical image segmentation (convolutional oriented boundaries). The objectness scoring is mainly obtained through the improved object proposals mapping map. Experiment results demonstrate that the proposed method can efficiently remove the interference of non-salient objects and complex background while preserving more salient object regions.

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Jinxia Shang, Runxin Li, and Yun Liu "Salient object detection based on hierarchical segmentation and objectness-guided," Journal of Electronic Imaging 33(1), 013001 (28 December 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.33.1.013001
Received: 25 July 2023; Accepted: 11 December 2023; Published: 28 December 2023
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KEYWORDS
Image segmentation

Object detection

Matrices

Lithium

Detection and tracking algorithms

Semantics

Visualization

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