Efficient modeling of visual saliency based on local sparse representation and the use of hamming distance

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 134, Issue , 2015, Pages 33-45

  Rigas, Ioannis ^a   Economou, George ^b   Fotopoulos, Spiros ^b  

^a Texas State University San Marcos   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Attention modeling; Hamming distance; Sparse representation; Visual saliency

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER VISION; HARDWARE; IMAGE CODING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; VISUALIZATION;

ATTENTION MODEL; BIO-INSPIRED ALGORITHMS; COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE; COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; OVER-COMPLETE DICTIONARIES; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; VISUAL SALIENCY;

HAMMING DISTANCE;

EID: 84939999264     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2015.01.007     Document Type: Article

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