Region-of-Interest Detection via Superpixel-to-Pixel Saliency Analysis for Remote Sensing Image

Abstract

Traditional region-of-interest (ROI) detection methods for remote sensing images are generally formulated at pixel level and are less efficient when applied on large high-resolution images. This letter presents an accurate and efficient approach via superpixel-to-pixel saliency analysis for ROI detection. At first, the image is downsampled and segmented into superpixels by simple linear iterative clustering. Next, structure tensor and background contrast are used to yield superpixel feature maps for texture and color. After fusing the feature maps, the overall superpixel saliency map is obtained and then used to achieve the final pixel-level saliency map by superpixel-to-pixel mapping. Through experimentations, we validate the effectiveness and computational efficiency of the proposed model in comparison with state-of-the-art techniques.