COREST: A MEASURE OF COLOR AND SPACE STABILITY TO DETECT SALIENT REGIONS ACCORDING TO HUMAN CRITERIA

Agnés Borràs, Josep Lladós

2009

Abstract

In this paper we present a novel method to obtain regions of interest in color images. The strategy consists in the evaluation of the stability of a region according to its properties of color and spatial arrangement. We propose a fusion of the classical color image segmentation with the space scale analysis. An image can be decomposed in a set of regions that describe the whole image content. Using a set of manual labelled images we have evaluated the properties of the detector according to the human perception. The proposed region detector has a potential application in the field of the content based image retrieval by sketch.

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Borràs A. and Lladós J. (2009). COREST: A MEASURE OF COLOR AND SPACE STABILITY TO DETECT SALIENT REGIONS ACCORDING TO HUMAN CRITERIA . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 204-209. DOI: 10.5220/0001802502040209


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={Agnés Borràs and Josep Lladós},
title={COREST: A MEASURE OF COLOR AND SPACE STABILITY TO DETECT SALIENT REGIONS ACCORDING TO HUMAN CRITERIA},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={204-209},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001802502040209},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - COREST: A MEASURE OF COLOR AND SPACE STABILITY TO DETECT SALIENT REGIONS ACCORDING TO HUMAN CRITERIA
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Borràs A.
AU - Lladós J.
PY - 2009
SP - 204
EP - 209
DO - 10.5220/0001802502040209