| HVS | Human Visual System |
| LTP | Local Ternary Patterns |
| LBP | Local Binary Patterns |
| SLICO | Simple Linear Iterative Clustering with zero parameter |
| SLIC | Simple Linear Iterative Clustering |
| MDS | Multi-dimensional Scaling |
| RGB | Red–Green–Blue |
| HSL | Hue–Saturation–Luminance |
| CMY | Cyan–Magenta–Yellow |
| MAE | Mean Absolute Error |
| ECSSD | Extended Complex Scene Saliency Dataset |
| MSRA10K | Microsoft Research Asia 10,000 dataset |
| DUT-OMRON | Dalian University of Technology—OMRON Corporation dataset |
| SED2 | Segmentation evaluation database with 2 salient objects dataset |
| HS | Hierarchical saliency detection model |
| CHS | Hierarchical image saliency detection on extended CSSD model |
| RR | Red-Red |
| RG | Red-Green |
| RB | Red-Blue |
| GR | Green-Red |
| GG | Green-Green |
| GB | Green-Blue |
| BR | Blue-Red |
| BG | Blue-Green |
| BB | Blue-Blue |
| GR [56] | Graph-regularized saliency detection |
| MNP [57] | Saliency for image manipulation |
| LBI [58] | Looking beyond the image |
| LMLC [59] | Bayesian saliency via low and mid level cues |
| SVO [60] | Fusing generic objectness and visual saliency |
| SWD [61] | spatially weighted dissimilarity |
| HC [42] | Histogram-based contrast |
| SEG [62] | Segmenting salient objects |
| CA [46] | Context-aware saliency detection |
| FT [63] | Frequency-tuned salient region detection |
| AC [41] | Salient region detection and segmentation |