The performance of face analysis and recognition systems depends on the quality of the
acquired face data, which is influenced by numerous factors. Automatically assessing the …

Quality of experience (QoE) is the perceptual quality of service (QoS) from the users'
perspective. For video service, the relationship between QoE and QoS (such as coding …

Selecting appropriate stimuli to induce emotional states is essential in affective research.
Only a few standardized affective stimulus databases have been created for auditory …

Contrast sensitivity defines the threshold between the visible and invisible, which has
obvious significance for basic and clinical vision science. Fechner's 1860 review reported …

Image quality assessment (IQA) has been a topic of intense research over the last several
decades. With each year comes an increasing number of new IQA algorithms, extensions of …

Abstract The Tobii Eyex Controller is a new low-cost binocular eye tracker marketed for
integration in gaming and consumer applications. The manufacturers claim that the system …

This paper presents an efficient metric for quantifying the visual fidelity of natural images
based on near-threshold and suprathreshold properties of human vision. The proposed …

Where does one attend when viewing dynamic scenes? Research into the factors
influencing gaze location during static scene viewing have reported that low-level visual …

We investigated the spatio-temporal dynamic of attentional bias towards fearful faces.
Twelve participants performed a covert spatial orienting task while recording visual event …

The eye-tracking method was used to assess attentional orienting to and engagement on
emotional visual scenes. In Experiment 1, unpleasant, neutral, or pleasant target pictures …