Saliency Map In Python

This code is a Python adaptation of the saliency map calculation from

@incollection{Achanta,
  author={Achanta, Radhakrishna and Estrada, Francisco and Wils, Patricia and Süsstrunk, Sabine},
  editor={Gasteratos, Antonios and Vincze, Markus and Tsotsos, John K.},
  booktitle={Computer Vision Systems},
  title={Salient Region Detection and Segmentation},
  year={2008},
  pages={66--75},
  volume={5008},
  series={Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
  isbn={978-3-540-79546-9},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-540-79547-6_7}
}

For more details see http://ivrgwww.epfl.ch/~achanta/SalientRegionDetection/SalientRegionDetection.html

Example files can be found at the URL given above.

Example usage:

$ python saliency.py -v input.png output.png

Usage Notes

• The front end (colorizer.py) requires argparse for parsing command line arguments, skimage for converting the image from RGB to LAB colour space (and back again), and matplotlib for loading, displaying, and saving the image.
• The back end (colorizationSolver.py and colorConversion.py) requires numpy and scipy.

License

Copyright 2015 Samuel Bucheli

This file is part of SaliencyMapInPython.

SaliencyMapInPython is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

SaliencyMapInPython is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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