Medium Spatial Frequencies, a Strong Predictor of Salience

Cognitive Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-47

  Urban, Fabrice ^a   Follet, Brice ^a,c   Chamaret, Christel ^a   Le Meur, Olivier ^b   Baccino, Thierry ^c  

^a Technicolor Research and Innovation   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Bottom up; Computational modeling; Eye tracking; Saliency map; Scene category

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BOTTOM UP; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; EYE-TRACKING; SALIENCY MAP; SCENE CATEGORY;

FREQUENCY BANDS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 79952816208     PISSN: 18669956     EISSN: 18669964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12559-010-9086-8     Document Type: Article

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