Biologically plausible saliency mechanisms improve feedforward object recognition

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2295-2307

  Han, Sunhyoung ^a   Vasconcelos, Nuno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically plausible recognition; Discriminant saliency; HMAX; Neural models; Object recognition; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL BASED FUNCTION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 77957749796     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.05.034     Document Type: Article

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