Everyone knows what is interesting: Salient locations which should be fixated

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1-22

  Masciocchi, Christopher Michael ^a   Mihalas, Stefan ^b   Parkhurst, Derrick ^c   Niebur, Ernst ^b  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Thirty Sixth Span Internet Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movements; Fixations; Interest points; Interesting locations; Model; Saliency

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449707404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.11.1     Document Type: Article

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