Quantifying center bias of observers in free viewing of dynamic natural scenes

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Tseng, Po He ^a,d   Carmi, Ran ^b   Cameron, Ian G M ^c   Munoz, Douglas P ^c   Itti, Laurent ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movement; Eye position; Eye head coordination; Fixation; Motor bias; Ocular; Orbital reserve; Photographer bias; Saccade; Saccade selection; Saccadic eye movement; Salience; Saliency maps; Screen center; Visuo motor optimizing strategy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SACCADES; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650302087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.7.4     Document Type: Article

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