Salient object detection using a fuzzy theoretic approach

  • Authors:
  • Aditi Kapoor;K. K. Biswas;M. Hanmandlu

  • Affiliations:
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi;Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi;Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Eighth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Color is the most dominant feature used by the human brain to perceive an image region to be salient. Since size, shape, location and colors of salient objects vary widely, a fuzzy rule based system is proposed in this paper which uses color proximity, color spread, connected components and presence of a face as linguistic variables. These rules are learned using a genetic algorithm. The colorspace used is the CIELab colorspace which closely conforms with human perception of colors. A publicly available image dataset is used for training and testing the system. Comparisons with existing state-of-the-art methods in terms of precision, recall and F-Measure have been presented.