Image saliency map determination device, method, program, and recording medium

摘要

The present invention provides an image processing device that is capable of evaluating accurately a saliency measure of even a single still image without the need for any previous knowledge. The image processing device includes: an affinity map generating unit that generates an affinity map that indicates an affinity between each super pixel and a super pixel located in a periphery region of an image; a foreground region identifying unit that identifies, as a foreground region, one or more of the super pixels which have lower affinities than a preset threshold in the affinity map calculated by the affinity map generating unit; and a saliency map generating unit that determines a foreground affinity map that indicates an affinity between each super pixel and the foreground region, and then outputs the foreground affinity map as a saliency map.