Hierarchical Co-salient Object Detection via Color Names

In this paper, a bottom-up and data-driven model is introduced to detect co-salient objects from an image pair. Inspired by the biologically-plausible across-scale architecture, we propose a multi-layer fusion algorithm to extract conspicuous parts from an input image. At each layer, two existing saliency models are first combined to obtain an initial saliency map, which simultaneously codes for the color names based surrounded cue and the background measure based boundary connectivity. Then a global color cue with respect to color names is invoked to refine and fuse single-layer saliency results. Finally, we exploit the color names based distance metric to measure the color consistency between a pair of saliency maps and remove those non-co-salient regions. The proposed model can generate both saliency and co-saliency maps. Experimental results show that our model performs favorably against 14 saliency models and 6 co-saliency models on the Image Pair data set.