Detection of salient objects in computer synthesized images based on object-level contrast

Abstract

In this work, we propose a method to detect visually salient objects in computer synthesized images from 3D meshes. Different from existing detection methods on graphic saliency which compute saliency based on pixel-level contrast, the proposed method computes saliency by measuring object-level contrast of each object to the other objects in a rendered image. Given a synthesized image, the proposed method first extracts dominant colors from each object, and represents each object with the dominant color descriptor (DCD). Saliency is measured as the contrast between the DCD of the object and the DCDs of its surrounding objects. We evaluate the proposed method on a data set of computer rendered images, and the results show that the proposed method obtains much better performance compared with existing related methods.