A proto-object based visual attention model

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

Volumn 4840 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 198-215

  Orabona, Francesco ^a   Metta, Giorgio ^a,b   Sandini, Giulio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER VISION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GESTALT RULES; SALIENCY MECHANISM; VISUAL ATTENTION MODEL;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 38549125456     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77343-6_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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