On sensor bias in experimental methods for comparing interest-point, saliency, and recognition algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 110-126

  Andreopoulos, Alexander ^a   Tsotsos, John K ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active vision; attention; feature detection; gain; recognition; saliency; shutter speed

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE VISION; ATTENTION; FEATURE DETECTION; GAIN; RECOGNITION; SALIENCY; SHUTTER SPEED;

CHEMICAL DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; RATING; SENSORS; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 81855191845     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2011.91     Document Type: Article

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