Statistical textural distinctiveness for salient region detection in natural images

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 979-986

  Scharfenberger, Christian ^a   Wong, Alexander ^a   Fergani, Khalil ^a   Zelek, John S ^a   Clausi, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

low level image processing; saliency computation; sparse texture model; Statistical textural distinctiveness

Indexed keywords

LOW LEVEL IMAGE PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METRICS; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; SALIENCY DETECTION; SALIENT REGION DETECTIONS; SALIENT REGIONS; STATISTICAL TEXTURAL DISTINCTIVENESS; TEXTURE MODELING;

ATOMS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; GRAPHIC METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICS; TEXTURES;

IMAGE TEXTURE;

EID: 84887369642     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2013.131     Document Type: Conference Paper

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