Stas Goferman Lihi Zelnik-Manor Ayellet Tal
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Man in a flower field In the fields Spring blossom
Olympic weight lifter Olympic victory Olympic achievement
Man in a flower field In the fields Spring blossom Olympic weight lifter Olympic victory Olympic achievement
Man in a flower field In the fields Spring blossom Olympic weight lifter Olympic victory Olympic achievement
Following perceptual properties
Local low-level factors Contrast Color
[Walther and Koch, Neural Networks 2006]
Local low-level factors Contrast Color Walther & Koch, 2006
Global considerations Maintain unique features
[Hou & Zhang CVPR 2007]
Global considerations Maintain unique features Hou & Zhang, 2007
Local & global
InputMulti-scale contrast Center surround ColorFinal [Liu et al, CVPR 2007]
Local & global Liu et al, 2007
Visual organization (Gestalt) Few centers of gravity [Koffka] Position is important!!
High-level Faces Objects People … [Judd et al, ICCV 2009] Low-level With face detection
Our result
Local Walther & Koch, 2006 Global Hou & Zhang, 2007 Local + global Liu et al, 2007
The steps of our algorithm
Principles 1-2: Unique appearance salient salient Not salient
Principles 1-2: Unique appearance salient
Principles 1-2: Unique appearance salient Euclidean distance between colors of patches at p i & p j
Principles 1-2: Unique appearance salient high salient
Principle 3: Position is important! Similar patches both near and far Not salient
Principle 3: Position is important! Similar patches near Salient
Principle 3: Position is important! Normalized Euclidean distance between positions of p i & p j
Distance between a pair of patches: salient High
Distance between a pair of patches: salient High for K most similar
K most similar patches at scale r
Salient at: Multiple scales foreground Few scales background Scale 1Scale 4
Principle 3: Few centers of gravity Context
X Final result Focus points Distance map
Single-scale saliency Multiple scales Final saliency X
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Walther & Koch, 2006Hou & Zhang, 2007 Our result
Walther & Koch, 2006Hou & Zhang, 2007 Our result
Walther & Koch, 2006Hou & Zhang, 2007 Our result
Walther & Koch, 2006Hou & Zhang, 2007 Our result
Walther & Koch, 2006Hou & Zhang, 2007 Our result
Walther & Koch, 2006Hou & Zhang, 2007 Our result
Database of Hou & Zhang
Our Our + center Judd
Our Our + center Judd
InputOur resultBoiman & Irani
InputOur resultBoiman & Irani
Image resizing
Liu et al, 2007 Our result
Seam CarvingOur result Liu et al [Avidan et al, SIGGRPH’07]
Seam CarvingOur result [Avidan et al, SIGGRPH’07]
Seam CarvingOur result [Avidan et al, SIGGRPH’07]
Combines local & global saliency Incorporates perceptual considerations State-of-the-art results Code is available
Long run-time (~30 sec for 250x250 pixels) Repetitive texture is totally eliminated Can we control how much context is included?
Can it be extended to video? Is there a faster implementation
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