Salient object detection: A benchmark

A Borji, MM Cheng, H Jiang, J Li - IEEE transactions on image …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We extensively compare, qualitatively and quantitatively, 41 state-of-the-art models (29
salient object detection, 10 fixation prediction, 1 objectness, and 1 baseline) over seven …

State-of-the-art in visual attention modeling

A Borji, L Itti - IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modeling visual attention-particularly stimulus-driven, saliency-based attention-has been a
very active research area over the past 25 years. Many different models of attention are now …

Large-scale optimization of hierarchical features for saliency prediction in natural images

E Vig, M Dorr, D Cox - … of the IEEE conference on computer …, 2014 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Saliency prediction typically relies on hand-crafted (multiscale) features that are combined in
different ways to form a" master" saliency map, which encodes local image conspicuity …

Exploiting local and global patch rarities for saliency detection

A Borji, L Itti - 2012 IEEE conference on computer vision and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a saliency model based on two key ideas. The first one is considering local
and global image patch rarities as two complementary processes. The second one is based …

Saliency and human fixations: State-of-the-art and study of comparison metrics

N Riche, M Duvinage, M Mancas… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Visual saliency has been an increasingly active research area in the last ten years with
dozens of saliency models recently published. Nowadays, one of the big challenges in the …

The scene perception & event comprehension theory (SPECT) applied to visual narratives

LC Loschky, AM Larson, TJ Smith… - Topics in cognitive …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how people comprehend visual narratives (including picture stories, comics,
and film) requires the combination of traditionally separate theories that span the initial …

Boosting bottom-up and top-down visual features for saliency estimation

A Borji - 2012 ieee conference on computer vision and pattern …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite significant recent progress, the best available visual saliency models still lag behind
human performance in predicting eye fixations in free-viewing of natural scenes. Majority of …

Analysis of scores, datasets, and models in visual saliency prediction

A Borji, HR Tavakoli, DN Sihite, L Itti - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2013 - cv-foundation.org
Significant recent progress has been made in developing high-quality saliency models.
However, less effort has been undertaken on fair assessment of these models, over large …

Rare2012: A multi-scale rarity-based saliency detection with its comparative statistical analysis

N Riche, M Mancas, M Duvinage… - Signal Processing …, 2013 - Elsevier
For the last decades, computer-based visual attention models aiming at automatically
predicting human gaze on images or videos have exponentially increased. Even if several …

Computational versus psychophysical bottom-up image saliency: A comparative evaluation study

A Toet - IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The predictions of 13 computational bottom-up saliency models and a newly introduced
Multiscale Contrast Conspicuity (MCC) metric are compared with human visual conspicuity …