Segmentation of Salient Regions in Outdoor Scenes Using Imagery and 3-D Data

This paper describes a segmentation method for extracting salient regions in outdoor scenes using both 3-D laser scans and imagery information. Our approach is a bottomup attentive process without any high-level priors, models, or learning. As a mid-level vision task, it is not only robust against noise and outliers but it also provides valuable information for other high-level tasks in the form of optimal segments and their ranked saliency. In this paper, we propose a new saliency definition for 3-D point clouds and we incorporate it with saliency features from color information.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: WACV
• Authors: Gunhee Kim, Daniel F. Huber, Martial Hebert
• Keywords: 3-D Laser Scans, Bottomup Attentive Process, Computer Vision, Mid-level Vision Task, WACV 2008