Fast Semi-automatic Target Initialization based on Visual Saliency for Airborne Thermal Imagery

Çağlar Aytekin, Emre Tunalı, Sinan Öz

2014

Abstract

In this study, a semi-automatic target initialization algorithm is introduced based on a recently proposed visual saliency approach. First, a center-surround difference based initial window selection is utilized around the input point coordinate provided by the user, in order to select the window which is most likely to contain the actual target and background satisfying piecewise connectivity. Then, a recently proposed visual saliency algorithm is exploited in order to detect the bounding box encapsulating the most salient part of the object. The experiments support that the saliency based tracking window initialization is capable of handling marking errors, i.e. erroneous user inputs, and boosts the performance of several tracking algorithms in terms of the number of frames in which successful tracking is achieved, when compared with several fixed window size initializations.

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Aytekin Ç., Tunalı E. and Öz S. (2014). Fast Semi-automatic Target Initialization based on Visual Saliency for Airborne Thermal Imagery . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-009-3, pages 490-497. DOI: 10.5220/0004668904900497


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@conference{visapp14,
author={Çağlar Aytekin and Emre Tunalı and Sinan Öz},
title={Fast Semi-automatic Target Initialization based on Visual Saliency for Airborne Thermal Imagery},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={490-497},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004668904900497},
isbn={978-989-758-009-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)
TI - Fast Semi-automatic Target Initialization based on Visual Saliency for Airborne Thermal Imagery
SN - 978-989-758-009-3
AU - Aytekin Ç.
AU - Tunalı E.
AU - Öz S.
PY - 2014
SP - 490
EP - 497
DO - 10.5220/0004668904900497