Saliency ranking using deep learning
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2018
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Kalash, Mahmoud
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Abstract
Salient object detection is a problem that has been considered in detail and many solutions proposed. In this thesis, we argue that work to date has addressed a problem that is relatively ill-posed. Specifically, there is not universal agreement about what constitutes a salient object when multiple observers are queried which implies a relative rank exists on salient objects. In this thesis, we solve this more general problem that considers relative rank. A novel deep learning solution is proposed based on a hierarchical representation of relative saliency and stage-wise refinement to address both of the saliency ranking and subitizing tasks. We also present methods for deriving suitable ranked salient object instances to generate a large scale dataset for saliency ranking, along with metrics suitable to measuring success in a relative object saliency landscape. Our approach exceeds performance of any prior work across all metrics considered (both traditional and newly proposed).
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Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, Saliency Detection, Saliency Ranking
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M. A. Islam*, M. Kalash* and N. Bruce. "Revisiting Salient Object Detection: Simultaneous Detection, Ranking, and Subitizing of Multiple Salient Objects." 2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, USA. IEEE, June 2018.