An efficient algorithm for attention-driven image interpretation from segments

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 126-140

  Fu, Hong ^a   Chi, Zheru ^a   Feng, Dagan ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Content based image retrieval; Image understanding; Region combination; Search optimization; Visual attention model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; REGION COMBINATION; SEARCH OPTIMIZATION; VISUAL ATTENTION MODEL;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 51649092464     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.06.021     Document Type: Article

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