ROS Implementation for Visual Saliency Algorithms

Build this repo in catkin workspace

git clone https://github.com/unr-arl/visual_saliency_ros
cd visual_saliency_ros
git submodule update --init --recursive
cd ..
catkin build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
source devel/setup.bash

Run an example

• Download an example rosbag from here: link
• Run the launch file: roslaunch visual_saliency saliency_vocus2.launch

References:

You can find mode details in the paper: "Traditional Saliency Reloaded: A Good Old Model in New Shape", S. Frintrop, T. Werner, G. Martin Garcia, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015.

And also please check out the VOCUS2 repo for more information.