Review Article

Performance Comparison of Saliency Detection

Table 1

Classification of saliency detection.

CategoryReferredModel

Attention point predictionIT [5]A Model of Saliency-Based Visual Attention for Rapid Scene Analysis
GB [10]Graph-based visual saliency
SR [11]Saliency detection: A spectral residual approach
SS [12]Image Signature: Highlighting sparse salient regions
COV [13]Visual saliency estimation by nonlinearly integrating features using region covariances

Salient 
region 
detection
Local contrastForeground prioriFES [14]Fast and Efficient Saliency Detection Using Sparse Sampling and Kernel Density Estimation
CA [15]Context-aware saliency detection
DRFI [16]Salient Object Detection: A Discriminative Regional Feature Integration Approach
Stru [9]Structure-guided statistical textural distinctiveness for salient region detection in natural images
Background 
priori
RBD [17]Saliency Optimization from Robust Background Detection
MAP [18]Saliency Region Detection Based on Markov Absorption Probabilities

Salient 
region 
detection
Global contrastForeground prioriHC [19]Global Contrast based Salient Region Detection
RC [20]Global Contrast based Salient Region Detection
MC [21]Saliency Detection via Absorbing Markov Chain
PCA [22]What Makes a Patch Distinct
Background 
priori
DSR [7]Saliency Detection via Dense and Sparse Reconstruction

Salient 
region 
detection
Learning algorithmAM [23]Amulet: Aggregating Multi-level Convolutional Features for salient object detection
BL [24]Salient Object Detection via Bootstrap Learning
LS [25]A Unified Approach to Salient Object Detection via Low Rank Matrix Recovery
UCF [26]Learning Uncertain Convolutional Features for Accurate Saliency Detection

Salient 
object 
detection
FT [27]Frequency-tuned salient region detection
AC [28]Salient region detection and segmentation
GC [29]Efficient Salient Region Detection with Soft Image Abstraction
MS [30]Saliency Detection with Multi-Scale Super-pixels
SF [31]Saliency Filters: Contrast Based Filtering for Salient Region Detection