With substantial attention being received from industry and academia over last decade, salient object detection has become an important fundamental research in computer vision. The solution of salient object detection will be helpful to make breakthroughs in various visual tasks. Although various works have achieved remarkable success for saliency detection tasks in visible light scenes, there still remain a challenging issue on how to extract salient objects with clear boundary and accurate internal structure in weak light images with low signal-to-noise ratios and limited effective information. For that fuzzy boundary and incomplete internal structure cause low accuracy of salient object detection in weak light scenes, an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm based saliency detection framework was proposed. Firstly, the input image was transformed into an undirected graph with different nodes by multi-scale superpixel segmentation. Secondly, the optimal feature selection strategy was adopted to capture the useful information contained in the salient object and eliminate the redundant noise information from weak light image with low contrast. Then, the spatial contrast strategy was introduced to explore the global saliency cues with relatively high contrast in the weak light image. To acquire more accurate saliency estimation at low signal-to-noise ratio, the ACO algorithm was used to optimize the saliency map. Through the experiments on three public datasets (MSRA, CSSD and PASCAL-S) and the Nighttime Image (NI) dataset, it can be seen that the Area Under the Curve (AUC) value of the proposed model reached 87.47%, 84.27% and 81.58% on three public datasets respectively, and the AUC value of the model was increased by 2.17 percentage points compared to that of the Low Rank Matrix Recovery (LR) model (which ranked the second) on the NI dataset. The results demonstrate that the proposed model has the detection effect with more accurate structure and clearer boundary compared to 11 mainstream saliency detection models and effectively suppresses the interference of weak light scenes on the detection performance of salient objects.

为了克服传统密度估计方法受限于算法配置工作量高、高等级密度样本数量有限等因素无法大规模应用的缺点,提出一种基于监控视频的全景密度估计方法。首先,通过自动构建场景的权重图消除成像过程中射影畸变造成的影响,该过程针对不同的场景自动鲁棒地学习出对应的权值图,从而有效降低算法配置工作量;其次,利用仿真模拟方法通过低密度等级样本构建大量高密度等级样本;最后,提取训练样本的面积、周长等特征用于训练支持向量回归机(SVR)来预测每个场景的密度等级。在测试过程中,还通过二维图像与全景地理信息系统(GIS)地图的映射,实时展示全景密度分布情况。在北京北站广场地区的深度应用结果表明,所提全景密度估计方法可以准确、快速、有效地估计复杂场景中人群密度动态变化。