Salient Region Extraction based on Global Contrast Enhancement and Saliency Cut for mage Information Recognition of the Visually Impaired
- Authors
- Yoon, Hongchan; Kim, Baek-Hyun; Mukhriddin, Mukhiddinov; Cho, Jinsoo
- Issue Date
- 31-May-2018
- Publisher
- KSII-KOR SOC INTERNET INFORMATION
- Keywords
- Salient region extraction; Visual attention; The visually impaired; Saliency map; Saliency cut; Image enhancement
- Citation
- KSII TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, v.12, no.5, pp.2287 - 2312
- Journal Title
- KSII TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
- Volume
- 12
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 2287
- End Page
- 2312
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/3755
- DOI
- 10.3837/tiis.2018.05.021
- ISSN
- 1976-7277
- Abstract
- Extracting key visual information from images containing natural scene is a challenging task and an important step for the visually impaired to recognize information based on tactile graphics. In this study, a novel method is proposed for extracting salient regions based on global contrast enhancement and saliency cuts in order to improve the process of recognizing images for the visually impaired. To accomplish this, an image enhancement technique is applied to natural scene images, and a saliency map is acquired to measure the color contrast of homogeneous regions against other areas of the image. The saliency maps also help automatic salient region extraction, referred to as saliency cuts, and assist in obtaining a binary mask of high quality. Finally, outer boundaries and inner edges are detected in images with natural scene to identify edges that are visually significant. Experimental results indicate that the method we propose in this paper extracts salient objects effectively and achieves remarkable performance compared to conventional methods. Our method offers benefits in extracting salient objects and generating simple but important edges from images containing natural scene and for providing information to the visually impaired.
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