Classifier-based approaches for top-down salient object detection

• Main Author: Cholakkal, Hisham
• Other Authors: Deepu Rajan
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Image processing and computer vision; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Artificial intelligence
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69601
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Saliency estimation aims to identify visually important regions in an image and to inhibit distractors. It has been used in recent object detectors and image classifiers as a pre-processor to indicate possible object regions in an image. The category-independent object proposals produced by bo...