A Review Of Co-Saliency Detection Algorithms: Fundamentals, Applications, And Challenges

Keywords

(Co-)saliency detection; Computer vision; Image understanding

Abstract

Co-saliency detection is a newly emerging and rapidly growing research area in the computer vision community. As a novel branch of visual saliency, co-saliency detection refers to the discovery of common and salient foregrounds from two or more relevant images, and it can be widely used in many computer vision tasks. The existing co-saliency detection algorithms mainly consist of three components: extracting effective features to represent the image regions, exploring the informative cues or factors to characterize co-saliency and designing effective computational frameworks to formulate co-saliency. Although numerous methods have been developed, the literature is still lacking a deep review and evaluation of co-saliency detection techniques. In this article, we aim at providing a comprehensive review of the fundamentals, challenges, and applications of co-saliency detection. Specifically, we provide an overview of some related computer vision works, review the history of co-saliency detection, summarize and categorize the major algorithms in this research area, discuss some open issues in this area, present the potential applications of co-saliency detection, and finally point out some unsolved challenges and promising future works. We expect this review to be beneficial to both fresh and senior researchers in this field and to give insights to researchers in other related areas regarding the utility of co-saliency detection algorithms.

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Publication Title

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Volume

9

Issue

4

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/3158674

Socpus ID

85041486636 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85041486636

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