An information theoretic model of saliency and visual search

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

Volumn 4840 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 171-183

  Bruce, Neil D B ^a   Tsotsos, John K ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Entropy; Fixation; Information theory; Saliency; Visual search

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ENTROPY; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FIXATION; VISUAL SEARCH;

VISION;

EID: 38549169450     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77343-6_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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