A coherent computational approach to model bottom-up visual attention

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 802-817

  Le Meur, Olivier ^a   Le Callet, Patrick ^b   Barba, Dominique ^b   Thoreau, Dominique ^a  

^a Video Compression Lab   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Bottom up visual attention; Coherent modeling; Computationally modeled human vision; Eye tracking experiments

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EYE MOVEMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

BOTTOM-UP VISUAL ATTENTION; COHERENT MODELING; COMPUTATIONALLY MODELED HUMAN VISION; EYE TRACKING EXPERIMENTS;

VISION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR VISION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33645236179     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2006.86     Document Type: Article

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