Group saliency propagation for large scale and quick image co-segmentation

Most of the existing co-segmentation methods are usually complex, and require pre-grouping of images, fine-tuning a few parameters and initial segmentation masks etc. These limitations become serious concerns for their application on large scale datasets. In this paper, Group Saliency Propagation (GSP) model is proposed where a single group saliency map is developed, which can be propagated to segment the entire group. In addition, it is also shown how a pool of these group saliency maps can help in quickly segmenting new input images. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve competitive performance on several benchmark co-segmentation datasets including ImageNet, with the added advantage of speed up.