Robust manifold-preserving diffusion-based saliency detection by adaptive weight construction
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2016

Graph-based diffusion techniques have drawn much interest lately for salient object detection. The diffusion performance is heavily dependent on the edge weights in graph representing the similarity between nodes, and are usually set through manually tuning. To improve the diffusion performance, this paper proposes a robust diffusion scheme, referred to as manifold-preserving diffusion (MPD), that is built jointly on two assumptions for preserving the manifold used in saliency detection. The smoothness assumption reflects the conditional random field (CRF) property and the related penalty term enforces similar saliency on similar graph neighbors. The penalty term related to the local reconstruction assumption enforces a local linear mapping from the feature space to saliency values. Graph edge weights in the above two penalties in the proposed MPD method are determined adaptively by minimizing local reconstruction errors in feature space. This enables a better adaption of diffusion on different images. The final diffusion process is then formulated as a regularized optimization problem, taking into account of initial seeds, manifold smoothness and local reconstruction. Consequently, when applied to saliency diffusion, MPD provides a higher performance upper bound than some existing diffusion methods such as manifold ranking. By utilizing MPD, we further introduce a two-stage saliency detection scheme, referred to as manifold-preserving diffusion-based saliency (MPDS), where boundary prior, Harris convex hull, and foci convex hull are employed for deriving initial seeds and a coarse map for MPD. Experiments were conducted on five benchmark datasets and compared with eight existing methods. Our results show that the proposed method is robust in terms of consistently achieving the highest weighted F-measure and lowest mean absolute error, meanwhile maintaining comparable precision–recall curves. Salient objects in different background can be uniformly highlighted in the output final saliency maps.

Graph-based diffusion

Manifold

Salient object detection

Saliency map

Författare

Keren Fu

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Signalbehandling och medicinsk teknik

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Irene Yu-Hua Gu

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Signalbehandling och medicinsk teknik

Chen Gong

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Jie Yang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Neurocomputing

0925-2312 (ISSN) 18728286 (eISSN)

Vol. 175 Part A 336-347

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Transport

Ämneskategorier

Signalbehandling

Datorseende och robotik (autonoma system)

DOI

10.1016/j.neucom.2015.10.066

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