Nachricht

Am Mittwoch, den 17. Dezember 2014, hält Christian Born um 16:30 Uhr im Raum P 1.4.17 einen Vortrag über seine Masterarbeit mit dem Titel:

Image Segmentation, Feature and Saliency Computation for Artificial Visual Attention based on a Growing Neural Gas

Zusammenfassung:

The concept of saliency is widely recognized to guide the visual attention human observers. Saliency is used in artificial attention systems to pre-select relevant parts of an image for computationally more intensive processing. In this work, a novel artificial visual attention system based on a Growing Neural Gas is proposed. The approach learns graph-based pre-attentional structures and computes color- and shape-based features and subsequently saliencies for them. The proposed method implements concepts traditionally ascribed to saliency. The ability of the proposed system to perform a saliency-based visual selection of conspicuous locations is evaluated in salient object and pop-out detection tasks. The results are compared with those obtained with different artificial attention systems. The proposed system performs well in the salient object detection task. In fact, it is the only assessed method which is able to reach a good performance in both tasks. Additionally, the stability of the estimated features, when the model is applied to dynamic scenes, is assessed.