Presentation 2018-03-18
Saliency Map Estimation for Omni-Directional Image Considering Prior Distribution
Tatsuya Suzuki, Takao Yamanaka,
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Abstract(in English) In recent years, the Deep Learning techniques have been applied to the estimation of saliency maps, which represent probability density functions of fixations when people look at the images. Although the methods of saliency-map estimation have been actively studied for planar images, the methods for omni-directional images to be utilized in virtual environments had not been proposed, until a competition of saliency-map estimation for the omni-directional images was held in ICME2017. In this paper, novel methods for estimating saliency maps for the omni-directional images are proposed considering the properties of prior distributions for fixations in the planar images and the omni-directional images.
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Keyword(in English) Omni-directional image / Saliency map / Deep Learning
Paper # BioX2017-50,PRMU2017-186
Date of Issue 2018-03-11 (BioX, PRMU)

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Committee PRMU / BioX
Conference Date 2018/3/18(2days)
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Chair Shinichi Sato(NII) / Kazuhiko Sumi(AGU)
Vice Chair Hironobu Fujiyoshi(Chubu Univ.) / Yoshihisa Ijiri(Omron) / Hiroshi Takano(Toyama Pref. Univ.) / Hitoshi Imaoka(NEC)
Secretary Hironobu Fujiyoshi(AIST) / Yoshihisa Ijiri(NAIST) / Hiroshi Takano(Shizuoka Univ.) / Hitoshi Imaoka(Fujitsu Labs.)
Assistant Masato Ishii(NEC) / Yusuke Sugano(Osaka Univ.) / Masatsugu Ichino(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Naoyuki Takada(Secom) / Norihiro Okui(KDDI Research)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding / Technical Committee on Biometrics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Saliency Map Estimation for Omni-Directional Image Considering Prior Distribution
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Keyword(1) Omni-directional image
Keyword(2) Saliency map
Keyword(3) Deep Learning
1st Author's Name Tatsuya Suzuki
1st Author's Affiliation Sophia University(Sophia Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Takao Yamanaka
2nd Author's Affiliation Sophia University(Sophia Univ.)
Date 2018-03-18
Paper # BioX2017-50,PRMU2017-186
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) BioX-513,PRMU-514
Page pp.pp.85-90(BioX), pp.85-90(PRMU),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-03-11 (BioX, PRMU)