Spatiotemporal saliency: Towards a hierarchical representation of visual saliency

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

Volumn 5395 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 98-111

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

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Fixation; Hierarchical; Information theory; Saliency; Spatiotemporal

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; FIXATION; HIERARCHICAL; SALIENCY; SPATIOTEMPORAL;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN; INFORMATION THEORY;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 63449094032     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00582-4_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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