Unsupervised extraction of visual attention objects in color images

  • Authors:
  • J. Han;K. N. Ngan;Mingjing Li;Hong-Jiang Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper proposes a generic model for unsupervised extraction of viewer's attention objects from color images. Without the full semantic understanding of image content, the model formulates the attention objects as a Markov random field (MRF) by integrating computational visual attention mechanisms with attention object growing techniques. Furthermore, we describe the MRF by a Gibbs random field with an energy function. The minimization of the energy function provides a practical way to obtain attention objects. Experimental results on 880 real images and user subjective evaluations by 16 subjects demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.