Salient Contour Detection Using a Global Contour Discontinuity Measurement

Abstract

Salient contour grouping/detection is one of the major topics in perceptual organization exploring the true meanings for contours. Extending contour's discontinuity quality from low level discontinuity, we introduce a new perspective that a salient contour represents a sharp change in the ability to organize the image into meaningful parts. This new view gives a novel, general edge energy measure, which has important perceptual meanings. A new multiscale saliency function and its variational solution are also described. Experiments on real images validate our method.

Cite

Text

Wang and Oliensis. "Salient Contour Detection Using a Global Contour Discontinuity Measurement." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2006. doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2006.183

Markdown

[Wang and Oliensis. "Salient Contour Detection Using a Global Contour Discontinuity Measurement." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2006.](https://mlanthology.org/cvprw/2006/wang2006cvprw-salient/) doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2006.183

BibTeX

@inproceedings{wang2006cvprw-salient,
  title     = {{Salient Contour Detection Using a Global Contour Discontinuity Measurement}},
  author    = {Wang, Hongzhi and Oliensis, John},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops},
  year      = {2006},
  pages     = {190},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPRW.2006.183},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvprw/2006/wang2006cvprw-salient/}
}