Visual saliency for automatic target detection, boundary detection, and image quality assessment

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5578-5581

  Seo, Hae Jong ^a   Milanfar, Peyman ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic target detection; Boundary detection; Image quality assessment; Visual saliency

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; VISUALIZATION;

AUTOMATIC TARGET DETECTION; BOUNDARY DETECTION; DETECTION METHODS; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; ITS APPLICATIONS; KNOWLEDGE LEARNING; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; PRIOR-KNOWLEDGE; VISUAL SALIENCY; VISUAL SALIENCY DETECTIONS;

PIXELS;

EID: 78049354233     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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