An Image Statistics-Based Model for Fixation Prediction

Cognitive Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-104

  Yanulevskaya, Victoria ^a   Marsman, Jan Bernard ^b   Cornelissen, Frans ^b   Geusebroek, Jan Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Natural image statistics; Visual saliency; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EDGE INFORMATION; IMAGE REGIONS; IMAGE STATISTICS; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; LOCAL CONTRAST; LOG LIKELIHOOD RATIO; LOW-LEVEL IMAGE FEATURES; NATURAL IMAGE STATISTICS; NATURAL IMAGES; SALIENT REGIONS; VISUAL SALIENCY; WEIBULL PARAMETERS;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FORECASTING; VISUALIZATION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79952814661     PISSN: 18669956     EISSN: 18669964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12559-010-9087-7     Document Type: Article

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