A Bayesian model for efficient visual search and recognition

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1338-1352

  Elazary, Lior ^a   Itti, Laurent ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Feature; Recognition; Scene analysis; Search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; KERNEL METHOD; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77954814129     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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