Modeling attention to salient proto-objects

Neural Networks

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1395-1407

  Walther, Dirk ^a   Koch, Christof ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention model; Object recognition; Proto objects; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION MODELS; NATURAL SCENES; PROTO OBJECTS; VISUAL ATTENTION;

VISION;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROC CURVE;

EID: 33750684017     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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