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In this paper, to suppress the interference of the fog and acquire boundaries of salient objects more precisely, we present a novel saliency detection method for human tracking in the wild. In our method, a combination of object contour detection and salient object detection is introduced. The proposed model can not only maintain the object edge more precisely via object contour detection, but also ensure the integrity of salient objects, and finally obtain accurate saliency maps of objects. Firstly, the input image is transformed into HSV color space, and the amplitude spectrum (AS) of each color channel is adjusted to obtain the frequency domain (FD) saliency map. Then, the contrast of the local-global superpixel is calculated, and the saliency map of the spatial domain (SD) is obtained. We use Discrete Stationary Wavelet Transform (DSWT) to fuse the cues of the FD and SD. Finally, a fully convolutional encoder\u2013decoder model is utilized to refine the contour of the salient objects. Experimental results demonstrate that the presented model can remove the influence of fog efficiently, and the performance is better than 16 state-of-the-art saliency models.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e21040374","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,8]],"date-time":"2019-04-08T11:54:52Z","timestamp":1554724492000},"page":"374","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Saliency Detection Based on the Combination of High-Level Knowledge and Low-Level Cues in Foggy Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Xin","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430065, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430065, China"},{"name":"Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Real-time Industrial System, Wuhan 430065, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nan","family":"Mu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430065, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3750","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2016.2527044","article-title":"Global and local saliency analysis for the extraction of residential areas in high-spatial-resolution remote sensing image","volume":"54","author":"Zhang","year":"2016","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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