State-of-the-art in visual attention modeling

A Borji, L Itti - IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modeling visual attention-particularly stimulus-driven, saliency-based attention-has been a
very active research area over the past 25 years. Many different models of attention are now …

Quantitative analysis of human-model agreement in visual saliency modeling: A comparative study

A Borji, DN Sihite, L Itti - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual attention is a process that enables biological and machine vision systems to select
the most relevant regions from a scene. Relevance is determined by two components: 1) top …

Leveraging stereopsis for saliency analysis

Y Niu, Y Geng, X Li, F Liu - 2012 IEEE Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stereopsis provides an additional depth cue and plays an important role in the human vision
system. This paper explores stereopsis for saliency analysis and presents two approaches …

Discriminative spatial saliency for image classification

G Sharma, F Jurie, C Schmid - 2012 IEEE Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In many visual classification tasks the spatial distribution of discriminative information is (i)
non uniform eg personreading'can be distinguished fromtaking a photo'based on the area …

A saliency detection model using low-level features based on wavelet transform

N Imamoglu, W Lin, Y Fang - IEEE transactions on multimedia, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Researchers have been taking advantage of visual attention in various image processing
applications such as image retargeting, video coding, etc. Recently, many saliency detection …

Visual saliency by selective contrast

Q Wang, Y Yuan, P Yan - … on Circuits and Systems for Video …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic detection of salient objects in visual media (eg, videos and images) has been
attracting much attention. The detected salient objects can be utilized for segmentation …

What are we looking for: Towards statistical modeling of saccadic eye movements and visual saliency

X Sun, H Yao, R Ji - 2012 IEEE conference on computer vision …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a unified statistical framework for modeling both saccadic eye
movements and visual saliency. By analyzing the statistical properties of human eye …

Global salient information maximization for saliency detection

W Luo, H Li, G Liu, KN Ngan - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new method for saliency detection is proposed. Based on the defined
features of the salient object, we solve the problem of saliency detection from three aspects …

Computing object-based saliency in urban scenes using laser sensing

Y Zhao, M He, H Zhao, F Davoine… - 2012 IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It becomes a well-known technology that a low-level map of complex environment
containing 3D laser points can be generated using a robot with laser scanners. Given a …

Saliency detection via statistical non-redundancy

A Jain, A Wong, P Fieguth - 2012 19th IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel algorithm based on statistical non-redundancy is proposed for saliency detection in
natural images. By modeling site neighbourhoods as realizations of other site …