A scheme for attentional video compression
PReMI'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Pattern recognition and machine intelligence
Visual saliency guided video compression algorithm
Image Communication
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Recently, many vision applications tend to utilize saliency maps derived from input images to guide them to focus on processing salient regions in images. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective method to quantify the saliency for each pixel in images. Specially, we define the saliency for a pixel in a ratio form, where the numerator measures the number of dissimilar pixels in its center-surround and the denominator measures the total number of pixels in its center-surround. The final saliency is obtained by combining these ratios of dissimilarity over multiple scales. For images, the saliency map generated by our method not only has a high quality in resolution also looks more reasonable. Finally, we apply our saliency map to extract the salient regions in images, and compare the performance with some state-of-the-art methods over an established ground-truth which contains 1000 images.