A model of hierarchical attention focusing based on saliency map and its application for a display method for small mobile devices

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4215-4223

  Toriu, Takashi ^a   Nakajima, Shigeyoshi ^a   Hama, Hiromitsu ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hierarchical attention focusing; Mobile display; Region of interest; Saliency map.; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ATTENTION; MOBILE DISPLAYS; REGION OF INTEREST; SALIENCY MAP; SEQUENCE OF IMAGES; SMALL DISPLAY; SMALL SCREENS; VISUAL ATTENTION;

FOCUSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 71149116914     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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