Salient Object Detection: A Benchmark

DOI10.1109/TIP.2015.2487833MaRDI QIDQ4613334zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ali Borji, Ming-Ming Cheng, Huaizu Jiang, J. Li

Publication date 31 January 2019

Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02741

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Detection theory in information and communication theory (94A13)

Abstract: We extensively compare, qualitatively and quantitatively, 40 state-of-the-art models (28 salient object detection, 10 fixation prediction, 1 objectness, and 1 baseline) over 6 challenging datasets for the purpose of benchmarking salient object detection and segmentation methods. From the results obtained so far, our evaluation shows a consistent rapid progress over the last few years in terms of both accuracy and running time. The top contenders in this benchmark significantly outperform the models identified as the best in the previous benchmark conducted just two years ago. We find that the models designed specifically for salient object detection generally work better than models in closely related areas, which in turn provides a precise definition and suggests an appropriate treatment of this problem that distinguishes it from other problems. In particular, we analyze the influences of center bias and scene complexity in model performance, which, along with the hard cases for state-of-the-art models, provide useful hints towards constructing more challenging large scale datasets and better saliency models. Finally, we propose probable solutions for tackling several open problems such as evaluation scores and dataset bias, which also suggest future research directions in the rapidly-growing field of salient object detection.

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