Linear vs. nonlinear feature combination for saliency computation: A comparison with human vision

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4174 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 314-323

  Ouerhani, Nabil ^a   Bur, Alexandre ^a   Hügli, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA REDUCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY;

COMBINATION STRATEGIES; COMPUTER MODELS; HUMAN VISION; SALIENCY COMPUTATION;

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750276750     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11861898_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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