Image saliency detection for multiple objects

Traditional saliency detection methods are designed only for a single salient object and cannot detect multiple salient objects in the image. This paper proposes a novel method for detecting multiple salient objects in the image, which is based on both objectness estimation method and superpixel segmentation method. The present study shows that the proposed method can correctly detect the salient regions for multiple objects and outperforms the other three state-of-the-art saliency detection methods.

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