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Saliency detection via object size distribution prior and image abstraction

WEI Rui1,2;HE Mingyi2;LIAN Baowang2;ZHOU Junni1   

  1. (1. School of Information and Control Engineering, Xi'an Univ. of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China;
    2. School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., Xi'an 710072, China)
  • Received:2016-08-01 Online:2017-02-20 Published:2017-04-01

Abstract:

In order to uniformly highlight the entire salient object and reduce the influence of high contrast small-size objects on saliency detection, salient object size distribution regularity and consistency of salient objects in different scales image abstraction are investigated. A multi-scale abstraction saliency detection approach based on the object size distribution prior is proposed. The method measures the color uniqueness and distribution for different super-pixel abstraction images, and guides salient object segmentation and abstraction by the object size distribution regularity. Experimental results on publicly available image databases show that the method can accurately detect salient objects. Meanwhile, it can restrain the influence of small-size high contrast objects on saliency detection and generate a uniform saliency map.

Key words: saliency detection, image abstraction, object size distribution prior, saliency map