Spectral Visual Saliency Toolbox

Implementations of several state-of-the-art visual saliency detection algorithms.

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Boris Schauerte (2026). Spectral Visual Saliency Toolbox (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/32455-spectral-visual-saliency-toolbox), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
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1.20.0

- integrated (locally debiased) region contrast saliency, see https://github.com/bschauerte/region_contrast_saliency

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1.19.0

- fixed automatic download URLs (broken after change on the server)
- gave the toolbox a real name

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1.18.0

- added a simple GPU benchmark routine
- minor change in imconvert.m

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1.17.0

- added reshape_spectral_image.m
- minor updates and fixes

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1.16.0

- added multi-scale routines
- added imconvert.m
- added get_additional_files.m

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1.15.0

- added EigenPQFT and EigenSR algorithms
- added two saliency algorithms by Achanta et al.
- added process_folder.m
- rewrote example.m
- QDCT .mex-binaries can now be found on my website (see README.txt)

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1.14.0

- C/C++ implementation now compiles without problems under Windows (MS Visual Studio Compiler / Windows SDK 7.1)

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1.12.0

- fixed an if-statement

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1.11.0

- updated the documentation

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1.10.0

- added an efficient C/C++ implementation of the QDCT image signatures
- added an example.m file for a simple example (including an example image)

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1.8.0

- changed the default parameters

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1.7.0

- fix

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1.6.0

- fix

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1.5.0

fix

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1.3.0

added the quaternion support again; added quaternion DCT signatures and saliency based on DCT image signatures; added another ICOPP conversion; added a visualization for quaternion images; added a README.txt

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1.2.0

- temporarily removed the Quaternion support (will be added again, soon)

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1.1.0

- added the quaternion-based multichannel saliency calculation

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1.0.0

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