Much of the neural machinery of the early visual cortex, from the extraction of local
orientations to contextual modulations through lateral interactions, is thought to have …

Humans actively observe the visual surroundings by focusing on salient objects and
ignoring trivial details. However, computer vision models based on convolutional neural …

Abstract Objects are always situated within a scene context and have specific relationships
with their environment. Understanding how scene context and the relationships between …

Deep learning architectures are an extremely powerful tool for recognizing and classifying
images. However, they require supervised learning and normally work on vectors of the size …

Semantic information is important in eye movement control. An important semantic influence
on gaze guidance relates to object-scene relationships: objects that are semantically …

In this thesis we try to explain (1) how we move our eyes,(2) how to build machines that
understand visual information and deploy eye movements, and (3) how to make these …

Humans sample visual information by making eye movements towards different parts of their
surroundings. Understanding what guides this sampling process is an important goal of …

Visual processing varies as a function of the retinal location at which a stimulus is presented:
with increasing eccentricity, processing is affected by crowding and a decrease in resolution …