Visual saliency detection in colour images based on density estimation
Désiré Sidibé, Fabrice Mériaudeau · Electronics Letters · 2016
A simple and effective method for visual saliency detection in colour images is presented. The method is based on the common observation that local salient regions exhibit distinct geometric and texture patterns from neighbouring regions. The colour distribution of local image patches is modelled with a Gaussian density and measure the saliency of each patch as the statistical distance from that density. Experimental results with public datasets and comparison with other state‐of‐the‐art methods show the effectiveness of the method.