Applications of human visual attention mechanisms in object detection

Hongwai yu Jiguang Gongcheng/Infrared and Laser Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-42

  Sang, Nong ^a   Li, Zheng Long ^a   Zhang, Tian Xu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Attention mechanisms; Object detection; Saliency maps

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION MECHANISMS; INPUT IMAGES; OBJECT DETECTION; SALIENCY MAPS;

ALGORITHMS; GAIN CONTROL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 15744371484     PISSN: 10072276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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