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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2011
Minwoo Park, Pittsford, NY (US);
Alexander C. Loui, Penfield, NY (US);
Mrityunjay Kumar, Rochester, NY (US);
Minwoo Park, Pittsford, NY (US);
Alexander C. Loui, Penfield, NY (US);
Mrityunjay Kumar, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for identifying high saliency regions in a digital image, comprising: segmenting the digital image into a plurality of segmented regions; determining a saliency value for each segmented region, merging neighboring segmented regions that share a common boundary in response to determining that one or more specified merging criteria are satisfied; and designating one or more of the segmented regions to be high saliency regions. The determination of the saliency value for a segmented region includes: determining a surround region including a set of image pixels surrounding the segmented region; analyzing the image pixels in the segmented region to determine one or more segmented region attributes; analyzing the image pixels in the surround region to determine one or more corresponding surround region attributes; determining a region saliency value responsive to differences between the one or more segmented region attributes and the corresponding surround region attributes.