Researchers have developed many visual saliency models in order to advance the technology in computer vision. Neural networks, Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) in particular, have successfully differentiate objects in images through feature extraction. Meanwhile, Cummings et al. has proposed a proto-object image saliency (POIS) model that shows perceptual objects or shapes can be modelled through the bottom-up saliency algorithm. Inspired from their work, this research is aimed to explore the imbedding features in the proto-object representations and utilizing artificial neural networks (ANN) to capture and predict the saliency output of POIS. A combination of CNN and a bi-directional long short-term memory (BLSTM) neural network is proposed for this saliency model as a machine learning alternative to the border ownership and grouping mechanism in POIS. As ANNs become more efficient in performing visual saliency tasks, the result of this work would extend their application in computer vision through successful implementation for proto-object based saliency.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/31682 |
| Date | 09 October 2018 |
| Creators | Zhou, Quan |
| Contributors | Poppe, Dorri, Chin, Sang (Peter) |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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