Change blindness is the striking failure to see large changes that normally would be noticed
easily. Over the past decade this phenomenon has greatly contributed to our understanding …

Change blindness and inattentional blindness are both failures of visual awareness.
Change blindness is the failure to notice an obvious change. Inattentional blindness is the …

We introduce a simple image descriptor referred to as the image signature. We show, within
the theoretical framework of sparse signal mixing, that this quantity spatially approximates …

Visual attention mechanisms are known to select information to process based on current
goals, personal relevance, and lower-level features. Here we present evidence that human …

Research on perception and cognition suggests that whereas East Asians view the world
holistically, attending to the entire field and relations among objects, Westerners view the …

This exploratory study examined the extent to which individual differences in sensory
processing sensitivity (SPS), a temperament/personality trait characterized by social …

Recent research on attentional guidance in real-world scenes has focused on object
recognition within the context of a scene. This approach has been valuable for determining …

Objective: This study investigates the effect of cognitive load on guidance of visual attention.
Background: Previous studies have shown that cognitive load can undermine driving …

Saliency models of eye guidance during scene perception suggest that attention is drawn to
visually conspicuous areas having high visual salience. Despite such low-level visual …

This thesis addresses a series of topics related to the question of how people find the
foreground objects from complex scenes. With both computer vision modeling, as well as …