From low level perception to high level perception, a coherent approach for visual attention modeling

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5292, Issue , 2004, Pages 284-295

  Le Meur, O ^a,b   Le Callet, P ^b   Barba, D ^b   Thoreau, D ^a   Francois, E ^a  

^a FCA UNESP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Bottom up model; Feature extraction; Saliency map; Visibility threshold

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BOTTOM-UP MODELS; SALIENCY MAP; VISIBILITY THRESHOLD; VISUAL ATTENTION MODELING;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 8844231645     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.527440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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