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However, due to different imaging mechanisms and image features, those approaches are not quite appropriate for remote sensing images. Thus, we propose a novel saliency analysis and ROI extraction method for remote sensing images, which is composed of local\u2013global contrast analysis for panchromatic images and intra-spectrum information distribution estimation (LI) for multi-spectral images. The panchromatic image is first segmented into superpixels via level set methods to reduce the subsequent computation complexity and keep region boundaries. Then, the spatially weighted superpixel intensity contrast is calculated globally to highlight superpixels unique to others and obtain the intensity saliency map. In multi-spectral images, ROIs are often included in informative superpixels; therefore, the information theory is introduced to each spectrum independently to acquire the spectrum saliency map. The final result is obtained by fusing the intensity saliency map and the spectrum saliency map and enhancing pixel-level saliency. To improve the anti-noise properties, we employ the Gaussian Pyramid for multi-scale analysis, which removes noise points by the blurring operation and the down-sampling operation. Experiments were conducted aiming at comparing the LI model with nine competing models qualitatively and quantitatively. 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