Visual conspicuity index: Spatial dissimilarity, distance, and central bias

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 690-693

  Duan, Lijuan ^a   Wu, Chunpeng ^a   Miao, Jun ^b   Bovik, Alan C ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

central bias; conspicuity; dissimilarity; spatial distance; visual saliency

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BIAS; CONSPICUITY; DISSIMILARITY; SPATIAL DISTANCE; VISUAL SALIENCY;

DATA PROCESSING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATING; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 80054685389     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2011.2167752     Document Type: Article

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