Color to gray: Attention preservation

Yezhou Yang, Mingli Song, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen, Cheng Jin

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

4 Scopus citations

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an approach to preserve a crucial visual cue in color to grayscale transformation: attention. The main contributions are threefolds: 1) preserving visual attention is more biological plausible than preserving other low level cues, which makes our method more reasonable in theory from both biological and psychological aspects; 2) We treat the saliency map from visual attention analysis as a classifier and aim to preserve attention area in the output grayscale image. 3) A simple minimizing function toward this specific problem is established and can be easily solved. Experimental results on test images indicate that our method is both practical and effective in preserving visual attention from the original color image to corresponding grayscale image.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 4th Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT 2010
Pages337-342
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event4th Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT 2010 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: Nov 14 2010Nov 17 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings - 4th Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT 2010

Other

Other4th Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT 2010
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period11/14/1011/17/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Software

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