Detection of visual attention regions in images using robust subspace analysis

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 199-216

  Hu, Yiqun ^a   Rajan, Deepu ^a   Chia, Liang Tien ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Clustering; GPCA; Least square estimation; Saliency; Scale space; Subspace analysis; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PIXELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

SUBSPACE ANALYSIS; VISUAL ATTENTION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 39949084301     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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