Stochastic saliency-based search model for search asymmetry with uncertain targets

Neurocomputing

Volumn 69, Issue 16-18, 2006, Pages 2112-2126

  Koike, Takahiko ^a   Saiki, Jun ^a,b  

^a Graduate School of Informatics   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Search asymmetry; Stimulus driven visual saliency; Stochastic winner take all; Visual search task

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; TARGETS;

SEARCH ASYMMETRY; STIMULUS-DRIVEN VISUAL SALIENCY; STOCHASTIC WINNER-TAKE-ALL; VISUAL SEARCH TASK;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAZE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33748426334     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2005.09.009     Document Type: Article

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