Saliency Enhancement using Gradient Domain Edges Merging
In recent years, there has been a rapid progress in solving the binary problems in computer vision, such as edge detection which finds the boundaries of an image and salient object detection which finds the important object in an image. This progress happened thanks to the rise of deep-learning and convolutional neural networks (CNN) which allow to extract complex and abstract features. However, edge detection and saliency are still two different fields and do not interact together, although it is intuitive for a human to detect salient objects based on its boundaries. Those features are not well merged in a CNN because edges and surfaces do not intersect since one feature represents a region while the other represents boundaries between different regions. In the current work, the main objective is to develop a method to merge the edges with the saliency maps to improve the performance of the saliency. Hence, we developed the gradient-domain merging (GDM) which can be used to quickly combine the image-domain information of salient object detection with the gradient-domain information of the edge detection. This leads to our proposed saliency enhancement using edges (SEE) with an average improvement of the F-measure of at least 3.4 times higher on the DUT-OMRON dataset and 6.6 times higher on the ECSSD dataset, when compared to competing algorithm such as denseCRF and BGOF. The SEE algorithm is split into 2 parts, SEE-Pre for preprocessing and SEE-Post pour postprocessing.
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