Familiarity based unified visual attention model for fast and robust object recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1116-1128

  Lee, Seungjin ^a   Kim, Kwanho ^a   Kim, Joo Young ^a   Kim, Minsu ^a   Yoo, Hoi Jun ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Object recognition; Scene analysis; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

NO REDUCTION; OBJECT LOCATION; REAL SCENES; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; ROBUST OBJECT RECOGNITION; SALIENT OBJECTS; SCENE ANALYSIS; SPEED-UPS; TARGET OBJECT; TOP-DOWN METHODS; TOPDOWN; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL ATTENTION MODEL;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY);

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 70449720613     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.07.014     Document Type: Article

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