Saliency detection using maximum symmetric surround

Detection of visually salient image regions is useful for applications like object segmentation, adaptive compression, and object recognition. Recently, full-resolution salient maps that retain well-defined boundaries have attracted attention. In these maps, boundaries are preserved by retaining substantially more frequency content from the original image than older techniques. However, if the salient regions comprise more than half the pixels of the image, or if the background is complex, the background gets highlighted instead of the salient object. In this paper, we introduce a method for salient region detection that retains the advantages of such saliency maps while overcoming their shortcomings. Our method exploits features of color and luminance, is simple to implement and is computationally efficient. We compare our algorithm to six state-of-theart salient region detection methods using publicly available ground truth. Our method outperforms the six algorithms by achieving bot...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICIP
• Authors: Radhakrishna Achanta, Sabine Süsstrunk
• Keywords: Automatic Salient Object, ICIP 2010, Image Processing, Salient Image Regions, Salient Object