A Computational Model of Saliency Depletion/Recovery Phenomena for the Salient Region Extraction of Videos

Author

Leung, Clement ; Kimura, Akisato ; Takeuchi, Tatsuto ; Kashino, Kunio

Author_Institution

NTT Corp., Atsugi

fYear

2007

fDate

2-5 July 2007

Firstpage

300

Lastpage

303

Abstract

This report proposes a new algorithm for extracting salient regions of videos by introducing two important properties of the early human visual system: (1) Instantaneous saliency depletion with gradual recovery, whereby saliency is instantaneously suppressed and gradually recovered in previously attended regions. (2) Gradual saliency depletion with instantaneous recovery, whereby saliency is gradually decreased over time in non-surprising regions and at the same time recovered in surprising locations. With the introduction of these properties, redundant information in videos can be suppressed and important information is eventually enhanced.

Keywords

feature extraction; video signal processing; computational model; gradual recovery; gradual saliency depletion; human visual system; instantaneous recovery; instantaneous saliency depletion; saliency depletion/recovery phenomena; video salient region extraction; Computational modeling; Computer vision; Discrete event simulation; Humans; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Laboratories; Uniform resource locators; Videos; Visual system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2007 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1016-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1017-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2007.4284646

Filename

4284646