Attention-driven salient edge(s) and region(s) extraction with application to CBIR

Signal Processing

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-15

  Feng, Songhe ^a   Xu, De ^a   Yang, Xu ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Localized content based image retrieval; Salient edge; Salient region; Selective visual attention model

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP MANNER; COMPUTING ALGORITHMS; CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; DETECTION METHODS; EDGE HISTOGRAM DESCRIPTORS; HIGH LEVEL SEMANTICS; HUMAN PERCEPTION; INTEGRATED STRATEGY; LEARNING-BASED ALGORITHMS; LOCALIZED CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SALIENCY MAP; SALIENT EDGE; SALIENT REGION; SALIENT REGIONS; SELECTIVE VISUAL ATTENTION MODEL; TOP-DOWN MANNER; TRAINING DATA; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL ATTENTION MODEL;

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FEEDBACK; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 69249206558     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.05.017     Document Type: Article

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