Cue-guided search: A computational model of selective attention

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 910-924

  Lee, KangWoo ^a   Buxton, Hilary ^a   Feng, Jianfeng ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Bottom up map; Computer vision; Cue guided search; Top down map

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CUE-GUIDED SEARCH; INTERACTIVE SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK (ISNN); SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TOP-DOWN MAP; VISUAL SEARCH;

COMPUTER VISION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; BIOMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 23044451395     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2005.851787     Document Type: Article

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