Predicting saliency existence using reduced salient features based on compactness and boundary cues
Salient object detection is a process that tries to locate the most prominent region within the visual scene. Despite of hundreds of successful developed models, most of the models still fail to produce correct detection for background only image and this is due to the models’ assumption that a s...
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| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/98049/1/FK%202021%2029%20UPMIR.pdf |
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| Summary: | Salient object detection is a process that tries to locate the most prominent region
within the visual scene. Despite of hundreds of successful developed models, most
of the models still fail to produce correct detection for background only image and
this is due to the models’ assumption that a salient object must at least exist in an
image. As for the previous models for saliency prediction, the developed models
require complex computation for feature extraction with large number of salient
features. Therefore, there is a need to develop a model for predicting saliency
existence as it is able to categorise the input images as salient or non-salient. This
research presented a method that can anticipate the existence of a salient object in
the input image retrieved from ASD and SOSB datasets based on the compactness
and boundary cues. This basis of assumption was adopted given the fact that the
compactness of a non-salient image is spatially distributed as referred to its
boundary compared to the salient image. The image background is measured based
on the boundary contrast and boundary spatial distribution within the spatial and
the frequency domain. These measurements represent the salient features that were
extracted based on statistical computations that act as the global saliency
identification. In order to reduce the number of extracted features, the salient
features were selected based on filter method through the saliency histogram. The
selected salient features were trained, tested and compared on 3 learning algorithms
which included generalised linear regression, Naïve Bayes, and Support Vector
Machine. By using the proposed method, the accuracy of the prediction was
achieved where a maximum of 91.5% was obtained while other measurements of
specificity, precision and recall obtained more than 90% accuracy. The validation
of the developed model was tested on the current salient object detection model to
observe the performance implication detecting the salient object. The saliency
existence prediction on the integrated model achieved 92.5% for accuracy with the
sacrifice of execution time which increased by 12.3% as compared to the salient
object detection model BCA. This research does not only contribute to the model development but can also become an initial study focusing on saliency existence
prediction that may have an impact on further model improvements in the future. |
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