Quantitative Analysis of Saliency Models
This provides a standardized evaluation method for researchers in computer vision and saliency modeling, though it is incremental as it applies existing quantitative approaches to a new domain.
The paper tackled the lack of quantitative evaluation in saliency detection research by introducing a framework to quantitatively analyze 3D computational saliency models, evaluating four models and two baselines against ground-truth data.
Previous saliency detection research required the reader to evaluate performance qualitatively, based on renderings of saliency maps on a few shapes. This qualitative approach meant it was unclear which saliency models were better, or how well they compared to human perception. This paper provides a quantitative evaluation framework that addresses this issue. In the first quantitative analysis of 3D computational saliency models, we evaluate four computational saliency models and two baseline models against ground-truth saliency collected in previous work.