Saliency Detection via Objectness Transferring

In this paper, we present a novel framework to incorporate top-down guidance to identify salient objects. The salient regions/objects are predicted by transferring objectness prior without the requirement of center-biased assumption. The proposed framework consists of the following two basic steps: In the top-down process, we create a location saliency map (LSM), which can be identified by a set of overlapping windows likely to cover salient objects. The corresponding binary segmentation masks of training windows are treated as high-level knowledge to be transferred to the test image windows, which may share visual similarity with training windows. In the bottom-up process, a multi-layer segmentation framework is employed, providing local shape information that is used to delineate accurate object boundaries. Through integrating top-down objectness priors and bottom-up image representation, our approach is able to produce an accurate pixel-wise saliency map. Extensive experiments show that our approach achieves the state-of-the-art results over MSRA 1000 dataset.