The top-down guidance of visual attention is an important factor allowing humans to
effectively process incoming visual information. Our understanding of the processes …

Whether overt attention in natural scenes is guided by object content or by low-level stimulus
features has become a matter of intense debate. Experimental evidence seemed to indicate …

Perceiving natural scenes with multiple objects presents a serious challenge to any visual
system. Selective visual attention provides a mechanism for serializing the visual information …

How do we decide which objects in a visual scene are more interesting? While intuition may
point toward high-level object recognition and cognitive processes, here we investigate the …

Image distortions can attract attention away from the natural scene saliency (Redi et al.,
2011). Performance of viewers in visual search tasks and their fixation patterns are also …

Eye tracking has become the de facto standard measure of visual attention in tasks that
range from free viewing to complex daily activities. In particular, saliency models are often …

Over the past 15 years work on visual salience has been restricted to models of low-level,
bottom-up salience that give an estimate of the salience for every pixel in an image. This …

Numerous studies have suggested that the deployment of attention is linked to saliency. In
contrast, very little is known about how salient objects are perceived. To probe the …

Some objects in the visual field are more likely to attract attention because they are either
intrinsically eye catching or relevant in the context of a particular task. These two factors …

Vision and multimedia communities have long attempted to enable computers to understand
image or video content in a manner analogous to humans. Humans' comprehension to an …