• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.797-810
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• 2019

Image saliency detection is the basis of perceptual image processing, which is significant to subsequent image processing methods. Most saliency detection methods can detect only a single object with a high-contrast background, but they have no effect on the extraction of a salient object from images with complex low-contrast backgrounds. With the prior knowledge, this paper proposes a method for detecting salient objects by combining the boundary contrast map and the geodesics-like maps. This method can highlight the foreground uniformly and extract the salient objects efficiently in images with low-contrast backgrounds. The classical receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve, which compares the salient map with the ground truth map, does not reflect the human perception. An ROC curve with distance (distance receiver operating characteristic, DROC) is proposed in this paper, which takes the ROC curve closer to the human subjective perception. Experiments on three benchmark datasets and three low-contrast image datasets, with four evaluation methods including DROC, show that on comparing the eight state-of-the-art approaches, the proposed approach performs well.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제36권11호
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• pp.912-919
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 이차원 텐서보팅과 에지 기반 방법을 이용하여 자연영상에서 문자를 검출하는 새로운 방법을 제시한다. 텍스트의 문자들은 보통 연속적인 완만한 곡선 상에 배열되어 있고 서로 가깝게 위치하며, 이러한 특성은 텐서보팅에 의하여 효과적으로 검출될 수 있다. 이차원 텐서보팅은 토큰의 연속성을 curve saliency 로 산출하며 이러한 특성은 다양한 영상해석에 사용된다. 먼저 에지 검출을 이용하여 영상 내의 텍스트 영역이 위치할 가능성이 있는 텍스트 후보영역을 찾고 이러한 후보영역의 연속성을 텐서보팅에 의해 검증하여 잡음영역을 제거하고 텍스트 영역만을 구분한다. 실험 결과, 제안된 방법은 복잡한 자연영상에서 효과적으로 텍스트 영역을 검출함을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권10호
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• pp.4976-4994
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• 2018

The diffusion-based salient object detection methods have shown excellent detection results and more efficient computation in recent years. However, the current diffusion-based salient object detection methods still have disadvantage of detecting the object appearing at the image boundaries and different scales. To address the above mentioned issues, this paper proposes a multi-scale diffusion-based salient object detection algorithm with background and objectness seeds. In specific, the image is firstly over-segmented at several scales. Secondly, the background and objectness saliency of each superpixel is then calculated and fused in each scale. Thirdly, manifold ranking method is chosen to propagate the Bayessian fusion of background and objectness saliency to the whole image. Finally, the pixel-level saliency map is constructed by weighted summation of saliency values under different scales. We evaluate our salient object detection algorithm with other 24 state-of-the-art methods on four public benchmark datasets, i.e., ASD, SED1, SED2 and SOD. The results show that the proposed method performs favorably against 24 state-of-the-art salient object detection approaches in term of popular measures of PR curve and F-measure. And the visual comparison results also show that our method highlights the salient objects more effectively.