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We proposed a computational visual saliency modeling technique. The proposed technique makes use of a color co-occurrence histogram (CCH) that captures not only “how many” but also “where and how” image pixels are composed into a visually perceivable image. Hence the CCH encodes image saliency information that is usually perceived as the discontinuity between an image region or object and its surrounding. The proposed technique has a number of distinctive characteristics: It is fast, discriminative, tolerant to image scale variation, and involves minimal parameter tuning. Experiments over benchmarking datasets show that it predicts fixational eye tracking points accurately and a superior AUC of 71.25 is obtained.
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Lu, S., Lim, JH. (2012). Saliency Modeling from Image Histograms. In: Fitzgibbon, A., Lazebnik, S., Perona, P., Sato, Y., Schmid, C. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2012. ECCV 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7578. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33786-4_24
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