Salient region detection and segmentation for general object recognition and image understanding

Science China Information Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2461-2470

  Huang, Tie Jun ^a   Tian, Yong Hong ^a   Li, Jia ^b   Yu, Hao Nan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

image understanding; object recognition; salient object segmentation; visual dictionary; visual saliency

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655183700     PISSN: 1674733X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11432-011-4487-1     Document Type: Article

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