A Shape-Based Approach for Salient Object Detection Using Deep Learning

Abstract

Salient object detection is a key step in many image analysis tasks as it not only identifies relevant parts of a visual scene but may also reduce computational complexity by filtering out irrelevant segments of the scene. In this paper, we propose a novel salient object detection method that combines a shape prediction driven by a convolutional neural network with the mid and low-region preserving image information. Our model learns a shape of a salient object using a CNN model for a target region and estimates the full but coarse saliency map of the target image. The map is then refined using image specific low-to-mid level information. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms previous state-of-the-arts methods in salient object detection.

Cite

Text

Kim and Pavlovic. "A Shape-Based Approach for Salient Object Detection Using Deep Learning." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2016. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46493-0_28

Markdown

[Kim and Pavlovic. "A Shape-Based Approach for Salient Object Detection Using Deep Learning." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2016.](https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2016/kim2016eccv-shape/) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46493-0_28

BibTeX

@inproceedings{kim2016eccv-shape,
  title     = {{A Shape-Based Approach for Salient Object Detection Using Deep Learning}},
  author    = {Kim, Jongpil and Pavlovic, Vladimir},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision},
  year      = {2016},
  pages     = {455-470},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-319-46493-0_28},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2016/kim2016eccv-shape/}
}