What roles can attention play in recognition?

2008 IEEE 7th International Conference on Development and Learning, ICDL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 55-60

  Tsotsos, John K ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Human vision; Recognition; Selective tuning; Visual feature binding

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; HUMAN VISION; RECOGNITION; SELECTIVE TUNING; VISUAL FEATURE BINDING;

COMPUTER VISION;

TUNING;

EID: 67650158450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DEVLRN.2008.4640805     Document Type: Conference Paper

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