Application of Saliency Map in various fields
- region-of-interest extraction: Saliency Map is used to extract the regions of most potential interest.
- Image cropping: It selects the region of interest and then we can crop the unnoticeable region.
- Image Captioning: Used in image captioning to recognise the objects.
- Medical Imaging: Used in medical image to process MRI images.
- Robot active vision: Robotics is a very large domain of application with various needs. It is used in image registration, landmarks extraction, object recognition and robot action guidance.
- Audio surveillance: Saliency models are used to spot unusual sounds in classical contextual sounds like a gunshot in the middle of a metro station audio ambience.
What is Saliency Map?
Saliency Map is an important concept of deep learning and Computer vision. While training images of birds how does CNN knows to focus on bird-related pixels and ignore the leaves and the other background things in the image? By using the concept of Saliency Map.