Semantic Prior Analysis for Salient Object Detection

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-23-2019

Publication Source

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Abstract

Salient object detection aims to detect the main objects in the given image. In this paper, we propose an approach that integrates semantic priors into the salient object detection process. The method first obtains an explicit saliency map that is refined by the explicit semantic priors learned from data. Then an implicit saliency map is constructed using a trained model that maps the implicit semantic priors embedded into superpixel features with the saliency values. Next, the fusion saliency map is computed by adaptively fusing both the explicit and implicit semantic maps. The final saliency map is eventually computed via the post-processing refinement step. Experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method; particularly, it achieves competitive performance with the state-of-the-art baselines on three challenging datasets, namely, ECSSD, HKUIS, and iCoSeg.

Inclusive pages

3130 - 3141

ISBN/ISSN

1057-7149

Publisher

IEEE

Volume

28

Issue

6

Keywords

Salient object detection, semantic priors, deep networks


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