Katramados, IoannisBreckon, Toby P.2012-09-242012-09-242011-09-14Ioannis Katramados and Toby Breckon. Real-time visual saliency by division of Gaussians Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2011, Brussels, Belgium, 11-14 September 2011, Pages 1701-17049781457713040http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2011.6115785http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/7590This paper introduces a novel method for deriving visual saliency maps in real- time without compromising the quality of the output. This is achieved by replacing the computationally expensive centre-surround filters with a simpler mathematical model named Division of Gaussians (DIVoG). The results are compared to five other approaches, demonstrating at least six times faster execution than the current state-of-the-art whilst maintaining high detection accuracy. Given the multitude of computer vision applications that make use of visual saliency algorithms such a reduction in computational complexity is essential for improving their real-time performance.salient, saliency, DoGConference paper