The invention discloses an area-of-interest detection method based on background prior and a foreground node. The method comprises steps of 1) by use of SLIC
algorithm, segmenting an original image into super-pixels; 2) by use of K-means clustering
algorithm, carrying out clustering on boundary super-pixels, according to a clustering result, constructing a global
color difference matrix and a global space
distance matrix, fusing the global
color difference matrix and the global space
distance matrix into a
saliency map based on background prior, and finally, by use of a single-layer
cellular automaton, primarily optimizing the
saliency map based on the background prior; 3) carrying out adaptive threshold segmentation on the
saliency map based on the background prior so as to obtain a foreground node, according to a
contrast ratio relation, obtaining a saliency map based on the foreground node, and by use of the biased Gauss filtering, carrying out optimization; and 4) fusing the saliency map based on the background prior and the saliency map based on the foreground node, obtaining the final saliency map. According to the invention, the method is used in an
image processing processand can be widely applied in visual working field like visual tracking,
image segmentation and target re-positioning.