# Salient Object Detection via Objectness Measure

Source: [Salient Object Detection via Objectness Measure](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa61f91e209131ce9f6b79>)

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Authors: Sai Srivatsa R, R. Venkatesh Babu

Published: 2015-06-24T13:44:21.000Z

## Abstract

Salient object detection has become an important task in many image processing applications. The existing approaches exploit background prior and contrast prior to attain state of the art results. In this paper, instead of using background cues, we estimate the foreground regions in an image using objectness proposals and utilize it to obtain smooth and accurate saliency maps. We propose a novel saliency measure called \`foreground connectivity' which determines how tightly a pixel or a region is connected to the estimated foreground. We use the values assigned by this measure as foreground weights and integrate these in an optimization framework to obtain the final saliency maps. We extensively evaluate the proposed approach on two benchmark databases and demonstrate that the results obtained are better than the existing state of the art approaches.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07363>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.07363.pdf>)