On the relationship between optical variability, visual saliency, and eye fixations: A computational approach

Journal of Vision

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Garcia Diaz, Antó n ^a   Leborá n, Víctor ^a   Fdez Vidal, Xosé R ^a   Pardo, Xosé M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contextual adaptation; Efficient coding; Eye fixations; Face saliency; Hyperspectral; Optical variability; Saliency

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EYE FIXATION; FACE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FACE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84866928176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/12.6.17     Document Type: Article

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