2013 ICCV ICCV 2013

Saliency Detection: A Boolean Map Approach

Abstract

A novel Boolean Map based Saliency (BMS) model is proposed. An image is characterized by a set of binary images, which are generated by randomly thresholding the image's color channels. Based on a Gestalt principle of figure-ground segregation, BMS computes saliency maps by analyzing the topological structure of Boolean maps. BMS is simple to implement and efficient to run. Despite its simplicity, BMS consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance compared with ten leading methods on five eye tracking datasets. Furthermore, BMS is also shown to be advantageous in salient object detection.

🚀 Conference Pioneer — ICCV 2013
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — topological analysis
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — visual attention
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Speech & Audio