Control of Selective Visual Attention: Modeling the "Where" Pathway

Abstract

Intermediate and higher vision processes require selection of a sub(cid:173) set of the available sensory information before further processing. Usually, this selection is implemented in the form of a spatially circumscribed region of the visual field, the so-called "focus of at(cid:173) tention" which scans the visual scene dependent on the input and on the attentional state of the subject. We here present a model for the control of the focus of attention in primates, based on a saliency map. This mechanism is not only expected to model the functional(cid:173) ity of biological vision but also to be essential for the understanding of complex scenes in machine vision.

Cite

Text

Niebur and Koch. "Control of Selective Visual Attention: Modeling the "Where" Pathway." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1995.

Markdown

[Niebur and Koch. "Control of Selective Visual Attention: Modeling the "Where" Pathway." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1995.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1995/niebur1995neurips-control/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{niebur1995neurips-control,
  title     = {{Control of Selective Visual Attention: Modeling the "Where" Pathway}},
  author    = {Niebur, Ernst and Koch, Christof},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {1995},
  pages     = {802-808},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1995/niebur1995neurips-control/}
}