Learning full-range affinity for diffusion-based saliency detection
Paper in proceeding, 2016

In this paper we address the issue of enhancing salient object detection through diffusion-based techniques. For reliably diffusing the energy from labeled seeds, we propose a novel graph-based diffusion scheme called affinity learning-based diffusion (ALD), which is based on learning full-range affinity between two arbitrary graph nodes. The method differs from the previous existing work where implicit diffusion was formulated as a ranking problem on a graph. In the proposed method, the affinity learning is achieved in a unified graph-based semi-supervised manner, whose outcome is leveraged for global propagation. By properly selecting an affinity learning model, the proposed ALD outperforms the ranking-based diffusion in terms of accurately detecting salient objects and enhancing the correct salient objects under a range of background scenarios. By utilizing the ALD, we propose an enhanced saliency detector that outperforms 7 recent state-of-the-art saliency models on 3 benchmark datasets.

graph-based diffusion

affinity learning

Saliency detection

semi-supervised learning

Author

Keren Fu

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering

Irene Yu-Hua Gu

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering

Jie Yang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016, Shanghai, China, 20-25 March 2016

1520-6149 (ISSN)

1926-1930
978-1-4799-9988-0 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Signal Processing

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472012

ISBN

978-1-4799-9988-0

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