saliency

A python command line tool to create Itty-Koch-Style saliency maps.

Requirements

• Python 2 or 3
• Opencv 2+

Command options

• Find all the options by -h or --help

python saliency.py -h

How to use

• For the input image

• Simply specify the input/output directories

python saliency.py --inputDir [input_dir] --outputDir [output_dir]

• You can also mark the maximum saliency in the output image

python saliency.py --inputDir [input_dir] --outputDir [output_dir] --markMaxima

• Some recommendations for parameter tuning
  • Image size

Papers

• A Model of Saliency-Based Visual Attention for Rapid Scene Analysis , Laurent Itti, Christof Koch, and Ernst Niebur, PAMI, 1998

Thanks

• https://gist.github.com/tatome/d491c8b1ec5ed8d4744c

License

• Released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.