On the plausibility of the discriminant center-surround hypothesis for visual saliency

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Gao, Dashan ^a,b   Mahadevan, Vijay ^a   Vasconcelos, Nuno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Computational modeling; Eye movement; Structure of natural images; Visual search

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REVIEW; VISION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 45249100930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.7.13     Document Type: Article

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