Structure-guided statistical textural distinctiveness for salient region detection in natural images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 457-470

  Scharfenberger, Christian ^a   Wong, Alexander ^a   Clausi, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

salient region detection; Statistical textural distinctiveness; structure

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

IMPORTANT FEATURES; OCCURRENCE PROBABILITY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METRICS; ROTATIONAL INVARIANTS; SALIENT REGION DETECTIONS; STATISTICAL TEXTURAL DISTINCTIVENESS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; TEXTURAL CHARACTERISTIC;

STATISTICS;

EID: 84920125783     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2014.2380351     Document Type: Article

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