A saliency map based on sampling an image into random rectangular regions of interest

  • Authors:

  • Tadmeri Narayan Vikram;Marko Tscherepanow;Britta Wrede

  • Affiliations:

  • Applied Informatics Group, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld 33615, Germany and Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR Lab), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld 33615, Germany;Applied Informatics Group, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld 33615, Germany;Applied Informatics Group, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld 33615, Germany and Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR Lab), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld 33615, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this article we propose a novel approach to compute an image saliency map based on computing local saliencies over random rectangular regions of interest. Unlike many of the existing methods, the proposed approach does not require any training bases, operates on the image at the original scale and has only a single parameter which requires tuning. It has been tested on the two distinct tasks of salient region detection (using MSRA dataset) and eye gaze prediction (using York University and MIT datasets). The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on the eye gaze prediction task as compared with nine other state-of-the-art methods.