2014/08/11 by Jianping Shi, Qiong Yan, Shi, Jianping +6 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Neuroscience · #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Face Recognition and Perception #Image and Video Quality Assessment #Visual Attention and Saliency Detection #cs.CV
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1408.5418
14 pages, 15 figures
openalex publication_date 2014/08/11 · arxiv created 2015/08/04 · arxiv updated 2015/08/05 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Complex structures commonly exist in natural images. When an image contains small-scale high-contrast patterns either in the background or foreground, saliency detection could be adversely affected, resulting erroneous and non-uniform saliency assignment. The issue forms a fundamental challenge for prior methods. We tackle it from a scale point of view and propose a multi-layer approach to analyze saliency cues. Different from varying patch sizes or downsizing images, we measure region-based scales. The final saliency values are inferred optimally combining all the saliency cues in different scales using hierarchical inference. Through our inference model, single-scale information is selected to obtain a saliency map. Our method improves detection quality on many images that cannot be handled well traditionally. We also construct an extended Complex Scene Saliency Dataset (ECSSD) to include complex but general natural images.