Unsupervised Joint Salient Region Detection and Object Segmentation

This paper presents a novel unsupervised algorithm to detect salient regions and to segment out foreground objects from background. In contrast to previous unidirectional saliency-based object segmentation methods, in which only the detected saliency map is used to guide the object segmentation, our algorithm mutually exploits detection/segmentation cues from each other. To achieve this goal, an i...