Parsing scale-space and spatial stability analysis
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing
Context-free attentional operators: the generalized symmetry transform
International Journal of Computer Vision - Special issue on qualitative vision
Graphical Models and Image Processing
Edges: saliency measures and automatic thresholding
Machine Vision and Applications
A Model of Saliency-Based Visual Attention for Rapid Scene Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Saliency, Scale and Image Description
International Journal of Computer Vision
Contrast-based image attention analysis by using fuzzy growing
MULTIMEDIA '03 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM international conference on Multimedia
A Performance Evaluation of Local Descriptors
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2006 Special Issue: Modeling attention to salient proto-objects
Neural Networks
Wavelet-based salient region extraction
PCM'07 Proceedings of the multimedia 8th Pacific Rim conference on Advances in multimedia information processing
Fast and Robust Generation of Feature Maps for Region-Based Visual Attention
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Towards artistic minimal rendering
NPAR '10 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
Object of interest detection by saliency learning
ECCV'10 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Computer vision: Part II
A visual saliency map based on random sub-window means
IbPRIA'11 Proceedings of the 5th Iberian conference on Pattern recognition and image analysis
Salient object detection: a benchmark
ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part II
Visual saliency detection with center shift
Neurocomputing
Adaptive structuring elements based on salience information
ICCVG'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Computer Vision and Graphics
Artistic minimal rendering with lines and blocks
Graphical Models
An edge detection with automatic scale selection approach to improve coherent visual attention model
Pattern Recognition Letters
Discriminative two-level feature selection for realistic human action recognition
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
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A simple method for detecting salient regions in images is proposed. It requires only edge detection, threshold decomposition, the distance transform, and thresholding. Moreover, it avoids the need for setting any parameter values. Experiments show that the resulting regions are relatively coarse, but overall the method is surprisingly effective, and has the benefit of easy implementation. Quantitative tests were carried out on Liu et al.'s dataset of 5000 images. Although the ratings of our simple method were not as good as their approach which involved an extensive training stage, they were comparable to several other popular methods from the literature. Further tests on Kootstra and Schomaker's dataset of 99 images also showed promising results.