Learning saliency-based visual attention: A review

  • Authors:
  • Qi Zhao;Christof Koch

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore;Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA and Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Humans and other primates shift their gaze to allocate processing resources to a subset of the visual input. Understanding and emulating the way that human observers free-view a natural scene has both scientific and economic impact. It has therefore attracted the attention from researchers in a wide range of science and engineering disciplines. With the ever increasing computational power, machine learning has become a popular tool to mine human data in the exploration of how people direct their gaze when inspecting a visual scene. This paper reviews recent advances in learning saliency-based visual attention and discusses several key issues in this topic.