A bottom-up model of spatial attention predicts human error patterns in rapid scene recognition

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Einhäuser, Wolfgang ^a,d   Mundhenk, T Nathan ^b   Baldi, Pierre ^c   Koch, Christof ^a   Itti, Laurent ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; Modeling; Psychophysics; RSVP; Saliency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34547116848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.10.6     Document Type: Article

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