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Detecting Salient Regions based on Bottom-up Human Visual Attention Characteristic  

최경주 (LG CNS 연구개발센터)
이일병 (연세대학교 정보산업공학)
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a new salient region detection method in an image. The algorithm is based on the characteristics of human's bottom-up visual attention. Several features known to influence human visual attention like color, intensity and etc. are extracted from the each regions of an image. These features are then converted to importance values for each region using its local competition function and are combined to produce a saliency map, which represents the saliency at every location in the image by a scalar quantity, and guides the selection of attended locations, based on the spatial distribution of saliency region of the image in relation to its Perceptual importance. Results shown indicate that the calculated Saliency Maps correlate well with human perception of visually important regions.
Keywords
Visual Attention; Feature Map; Saliency Map;
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