A saliency information acquisition device configured to calculate a saliency measure for each pixel in an input image on the basis of information obtained from a local region surrounding each pixel, set a plurality of candidate regions in the input image, calculate a saliency measure for each candidate region in the plurality of candidate regions on the basis of information including a local saliency feature and a global feature; The saliency information acquisition device combines the saliency measure for each candidate region in the plurality of candidate regions obtained to generate saliency information for the input image.
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