Features that draw visual attention: An information theoretic perspective

Neurocomputing

Volumn 65-66, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 125-133

  Bruce, Neil D B ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Independent components; Information theory; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; STATISTICS;

EYE TRACKING; IMAGE OPERATORS; IMAGE STIMULUS; LOW-DIMENSIONAL SPACES;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONCEPT FORMATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE TRACKING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 18144431394     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2004.10.065     Document Type: Article

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