Multiscale fully convolutional network for image saliency

Simone Bianco; Marco Buzzelli; Raimondo Schettini

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.27.5.051221

12 May 2018 Multiscale fully convolutional network for image saliency

Simone Bianco, Marco Buzzelli, Raimondo Schettini

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Funded by: Nvidia Corporation

Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 27, Issue 5, 051221 (May 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.27.5.051221

Abstract

We focus on saliency estimation in digital images. We describe why it is important to adopt a data-driven model for such an illposed problem, allowing for a universal concept of “saliency” to naturally emerge from data that are typically annotated with drastically heterogeneous criteria. Our learning-based method also involves an explicit analysis of the input at multiple scales, in order to take into account images of different resolutions, depicting subjects of different sizes. Furthermore, despite training our model on binary ground truths only, we are able to output a continuous-valued confidence map, which represents the probability of each image pixel being salient. Every contribution of our method for saliency estimation is singularly tested according to a standard evaluation benchmark, and our final proposal proves to be very effective in a comparison with the state-of-the-art.

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Simone Bianco, Marco Buzzelli, and Raimondo Schettini "Multiscale fully convolutional network for image saliency," Journal of Electronic Imaging 27(5), 051221 (12 May 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.27.5.051221

Received: 15 January 2018; Accepted: 20 April 2018; Published: 12 May 2018

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