Saliency detection by adaptive clustering

Saliency detection plays an important role in image segmentation, content-aware resizing and object recognition. Most approaches obtain promising performance recently, which is useful for the postprocessing. We propose a clustering-based method to detect refined regions with comparative performance. For coarse-grained classification with unknown clusters number, an adaptive algorithm called f-means is developed in this paper. Pixels are clustered by f-means based on color and spatial features, and then the centroids are used to compute their saliency values. Experiments show that our algorithm generates more fine maps, which outperform the state-of-the-art approaches on MSRA dataset. Relying on the saliency map, we also get superior results in foreground extracting, image resizing and thumbnails generation.