Real-time tracking of visually attended objects in interactive virtual environments

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 29-38

  Lee, Sungkil ^a   Kim, Gerard Jounghyun ^b   Choi, Seungmoon ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

attention tracking; bottom up feature; saliency map; top down context; virtual environment; visual attention

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION TRACKING; BOTTOM-UP FEATURE; SALIENCY MAP; TOPDOWN; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VISUAL ATTENTION;

USER INTERFACES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 79956280346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1315184.1315187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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