Hierarchical Contour Closure-Based Holistic Salient Object Detection

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Qing Liu Guoying Zhao

Abstract

Most existing salient object detection methods compute the saliency for pixels, patches, or superpixels by contrast. Such fine-grained contrast-based salient object detection methods are stuck with saliency attenuation of the salient object and saliency overestimation of the background when the image is complicated. To better compute the saliency for complicated images, we propose a hierarchical contour closure-based holistic salient object detection method, in which two saliency cues, i.e., closure completeness and closure reliability, are thoroughly exploited. The former pops out the holistic homogeneous regions bounded by completely closed outer contours, and the latter highlights the holistic homogeneous regions bounded by averagely highly reliable outer contours. Accordingly, we propose two computational schemes to compute the corresponding saliency maps in a hierarchical segmentation space. Finally, we propose a framework to combine the two saliency maps, obtaining the final saliency map. Experimental results on three publicly available datasets show that even each single saliency map is able to reach the state-of-the-art performance. Furthermore, our framework, which combines two saliency maps, outperforms the state of t...Continue Reading

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