For centuries, anecdotal evidence such as the perfect pitch of the blind piano tuner or blind
musician has supported the notion that individuals who have lost their sight early in life have …

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 …

Recent advances in the field of saliency have concentrated on fixation prediction, with
benchmarks reaching saturation. However, there is an extensive body of works in …

In the first seconds of observation of an image, several visual attention processes are
involved in the identification of the visual targets that pop-out from the scene to our eyes …

A benchmark of saliency models performance with a synthetic image dataset is provided.
Model performance is evaluated through saliency metrics as well as the influence of model …

Previous studies suggested that lateral interactions of V1 cells are responsible, among other
visual effects, of bottom-up visual attention (alternatively named visual salience or saliency) …

In the last few years, there has been a surge in researchers to investigate visual attention for
various object-based applications. Visual attention requires a cognitive process to focus on …

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 …

Computational models of saliency estimation have been studied in a wide range of research
fields, including visual perception, image processing, computer vision, multimedia, and their …