Salient object detection based on discriminative boundary and multiple cues integration

Qingzhu Jiang; Zemin Wu; Chang Tian; Tao Liu; Mingyong Zeng; Lei Hu

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.25.1.013019

1 February 2016 Salient object detection based on discriminative boundary and multiple cues integration

Qingzhu Jiang, Zemin Wu, Chang Tian, Tao Liu, Mingyong Zeng, Lei Hu

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 25, Issue 1, 013019 (February 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.25.1.013019

Abstract

In recent years, many saliency models have achieved good performance by taking the image boundary as the background prior. However, if all boundaries of an image are equally and artificially selected as background, misjudgment may happen when the object touches the boundary. We propose an algorithm called weighted contrast optimization based on discriminative boundary (wCODB). First, a background estimation model is reliably constructed through discriminating each boundary via Hausdorff distance. Second, the background-only weighted contrast is improved by fore-background weighted contrast, which is optimized through weight-adjustable optimization framework. Then to objectively estimate the quality of a saliency map, a simple but effective metric called spatial distribution of saliency map and mean saliency in covered window ratio (MSR) is designed. Finally, in order to further promote the detection result using MSR as the weight, we propose a saliency fusion framework to integrate three other cues—uniqueness, distribution, and coherence from three representative methods into our wCODB model. Extensive experiments on six public datasets demonstrate that our wCODB performs favorably against most of the methods based on boundary, and the integrated result outperforms all state-of-the-art methods.

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Qingzhu Jiang, Zemin Wu, Chang Tian, Tao Liu, Mingyong Zeng, and Lei Hu "Salient object detection based on discriminative boundary and multiple cues integration," Journal of Electronic Imaging 25(1), 013019 (1 February 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.25.1.013019

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Image segmentation

Visual process modeling

Optimization (mathematics)

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Performance modeling

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