Visual saliency detection with center shift

  • Authors:
  • Weibin Yang;Yuan Yan Tang;Bin Fang;Zhaowei Shang;Yuewei Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China;School of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China and Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau 999078, Macau;School of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China;School of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel method for visual saliency detection based on an universal probabilistic model, which measures the saliency by combining low level features and location prior. We view the task of estimating visual saliency as searching the most conspicuous parts in an image and extract the saliency map by computing the dissimilarity between different regions. We simulate the moving of the center of human visual field, and describe how the center shift process works on visual saliency. Furthermore, multiscale analysis is adopted for improving the robustness of our model. Experimental results on three public image datasets show that the proposed approach outperforms 18 state-of-the-art methods for both salient object detection and human eye fixation prediction.