Exploiting Surroundedness for Saliency Detection: A Boolean Map Approach

We demonstrate the usefulness of surroundedness for eye fixation prediction by proposing a Boolean Map based Saliency model (BMS). In our formulation, an image is characterized by a set of binary images, which are generated by randomly thresholding the image's feature maps in a whitened feature...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence Jg. 38; H. 5; S. 889 - 902
Hauptverfasser: Jianming Zhang, Sclaroff, Stan
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States IEEE 01.05.2016
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
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ISSN:0162-8828, 2160-9292, 1939-3539
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Zusammenfassung:We demonstrate the usefulness of surroundedness for eye fixation prediction by proposing a Boolean Map based Saliency model (BMS). In our formulation, an image is characterized by a set of binary images, which are generated by randomly thresholding the image's feature maps in a whitened feature space. Based on a Gestalt principle of figure-ground segregation, BMS computes a saliency map by discovering surrounded regions via topological analysis of Boolean maps. Furthermore, we draw a connection between BMS and the Minimum Barrier Distance to provide insight into why and how BMS can properly captures the surroundedness cue via Boolean maps. The strength of BMS is verified by its simplicity, efficiency and superior performance compared with 10 state-of-the-art methods on seven eye tracking benchmark datasets.
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ISSN:0162-8828
2160-9292
1939-3539
DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2015.2473844