COLOR-AND TEXTURE-BASED SALIENT MAP

International audienceSalient maps are often obtained by extracting color-and texture-based characteristics ; that is, identify dominant textures and colors and associate them with regions. In this paper, dominant textures and colors are identified by means of the k-means. Then, connected components are extracted. This two step processing delivers a hierarchy of salient maps. Moreover, it uses a similarity measurement taking into account texture and color specificities