What makes a photograph memorable?

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1469-1482

  Isola, Phillip ^a   Xiao, Jianxiong ^a   Parikh, Devi ^b   Torralba, Antonio ^a   Oliva, Aude ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Scene Analysis; Vision and Scene Understanding

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING;

COMPUTER VISION TECHNIQUES; IMAGE DESCRIPTORS; IMAGE FEATURES; SCENE ANALYSIS; STABLE PROPERTY; USEFUL PROPERTIES; VISION AND SCENE UNDERSTANDING; VISUAL INFORMATION;

PHOTOGRAPHY;

ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84903159752     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2013.200     Document Type: Article

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