An electronic device for visual-saliency driven scene description is described. The electronic device includes a property identifier to identify properties of a target platform. The properties include target platform device type and target platform device count. The electronic device also includes a salient region detector to detect a salient region of an input in response to the target platform device type being a graphical processing unit (GPU) and the target platform device count being above one. The electronic device further includes a description provider to provide a fine-grained scene description for the salient region.