• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.2576-2589
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• 2017

Co-saliency detection is a task of detecting same or similar objects in multi-scene, and has been an important preprocessing step for multi-scene image processing. However existing methods lack efficiency to match similar areas from different images. In addition, they are confined to single image detection without a unified framework to calculate co-saliency. In this paper, we propose a novel model called Superpixel Matching-Cellular Automata (SMCA). We use Hausdorff distance adjacent superpixel sets instead of single superpixel since the feature matching accuracy of single superpixel is poor. We further introduce Cellular Automata to exploit the intrinsic relevance of similar regions through interactions with neighbors in multi-scene. Extensive evaluations show that the SMCA model achieves leading performance compared to state-of-the-art methods on both efficiency and accuracy.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.797-810
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• 2019

Image saliency detection is the basis of perceptual image processing, which is significant to subsequent image processing methods. Most saliency detection methods can detect only a single object with a high-contrast background, but they have no effect on the extraction of a salient object from images with complex low-contrast backgrounds. With the prior knowledge, this paper proposes a method for detecting salient objects by combining the boundary contrast map and the geodesics-like maps. This method can highlight the foreground uniformly and extract the salient objects efficiently in images with low-contrast backgrounds. The classical receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve, which compares the salient map with the ground truth map, does not reflect the human perception. An ROC curve with distance (distance receiver operating characteristic, DROC) is proposed in this paper, which takes the ROC curve closer to the human subjective perception. Experiments on three benchmark datasets and three low-contrast image datasets, with four evaluation methods including DROC, show that on comparing the eight state-of-the-art approaches, the proposed approach performs well.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.587-598
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• 2022

To increase building change recognition accuracy, we present a deep learning-based building change detection using remote sensing images. In the proposed approach, by merging pixel-level and object-level information of multitemporal remote sensing images, we create the difference image (DI), and the frequency-domain significance technique is used to generate the DI saliency map. The fuzzy C-means clustering technique pre-classifies the coarse change detection map by defining the DI saliency map threshold. We then extract the neighborhood features of the unchanged pixels and the changed (buildings) from pixel-level and object-level feature images, which are then used as valid deep neural network (DNN) training samples. The trained DNNs are then utilized to identify changes in DI. The suggested strategy was evaluated and compared to current detection methods using two datasets. The results suggest that our proposed technique can detect more building change information and improve change detection accuracy.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.39-47
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 이미지에서 돌출되는 객체를 검출하기 위해 Saliency Attention을 이용한 딥러닝 기반의 검출 방법을 제안하였다. 돌출 객체 검출은 사람의 시선이 집중되는 물체를 배경으로부터 분리시키는 것이며, 이미지에서 관련성이 높은 부분을 결정한다. 객체 추적 및 검출, 인식 등의 다양한 분야에서 유용하게 사용된다. 기존의 딥러닝 기반 방법들은 대부분 오토인코더 구조로, 특징을 압축 및 추출하는 인코더와 추출된 특징을 복원 및 확장하는 디코더에서 많은 특징 손실이 발생한다. 이러한 손실로 돌출 객체 영역에 손실이 발생하거나 배경을 객체로 검출하는 문제가 있다. 제안하는 방법은 오토인코더 구조에서 특징 손실을 감소시키고 배경 영역을 억제하기 위해 Saliency Attention을 제안하였다. ELU 활성화 함수를 이용해 특징 값의 영향력을 결정하며 각각 정규화된 음수 및 양수 영역의 특징값에 Attention을 진행하였다. 제안하는 Attention 기법을 통해 배경 영역을 억제하며 돌출 객체 영역을 강조하였다. 실험 결과에서는 제안하는 방법이 기존 방법과 비교하여 향상된 검출 결과를 보였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4386-4404
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• 2016

Most existing salient object detection algorithms commonly employed segmentation techniques to eliminate background noise and reduce computation by treating each segment as a processing unit. However, individual small segments provide little information about global contents. Such schemes have limited capability on modeling global perceptual phenomena. In this paper, a novel salient object detection algorithm is proposed based on region merging. An adaptive-based merging scheme is developed to reassemble regions based on their color dissimilarities. The merging strategy can be described as that a region R is merged with its adjacent region Q if Q has the lowest dissimilarity with Q among all Q's adjacent regions. To guide the merging process, superpixels that located at the boundary of the image are treated as the seeds. However, it is possible for a boundary in the input image to be occupied by the foreground object. To avoid this case, we optimize the boundary influences by locating and eliminating erroneous boundaries before the region merging. We show that even though three simple region saliency measurements are adopted for each region, encouraging performance can be obtained. Experiments on four benchmark datasets including MSRA-B, SOD, SED and iCoSeg show the proposed method results in uniform object enhancement and achieve state-of-the-art performance by comparing with nine existing methods.