Automatic salient object extraction with contextual cue and its applications to recognition and alpha matting

摘要

Author-Highlights•An image segmentation method extracts the object of interest automatically.•An energy minimization model leverages multiple features.•A novel way fuses saliency cue, appearance cue, and contextual cue.•An iterative algorithm jointly extracts the object, and learns its model.•The learned object model can recognize the same type of object in new images.