An automatic feature construction method for salient object detection: A genetic programming approach

Shima Afzali Vahed Moghaddam, Harith Al-Sahaf, Bing Xue, Christopher Hollitt, Mengjie Zhang

Abstract: Highlights•Automatically construct high-level saliency features.•Provides diversity and decrease search space.•The constructed high-level saliency features have better generalizability.•The GP-based constructed features have better interpretability.•Captures salient regions along with suppressing background regions over the whole image.