Visual Attention Mechanisms

✍ Scribed by Carlo A. Marzi (auth.), Virginio Cantoni, Maria Marinaro, Alfredo Petrosino (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Proceedings of the Fifth International School on Neural Networks "E.R. Caianiello" on Visual Attention MechaProceedings of the Fifth International School on Neural Networks "E.R. Caianiello" on Visual Attention Mechanisms, held 23-28 October 2000 in Vietri sul Mare, Italy.nisms, held 23-28 October 2000 in Vietri sul Mare, Italy.

The book covers a number of broad themes relevant to visual attention, ranging from computer vision to psychology and physiology of vision. The main theme of the book is the attention processes of vision systems and it aims to point out the analogies and the divergences of biological vision with the frameworks introduced by computer scientists in artificial vision.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Visual Attention And the Parallel Visual Pathways....Pages 1-6
Early Vision and Soft Computing....Pages 7-24
Psychophysical Measurement of Attentional Modulation in Low-Level Vision Using the Lateral-Interactions Paradigm....Pages 25-39
Log-Map Analysis....Pages 41-51
Visual Attention Mechanisms in Motion Analysis....Pages 53-60
Bottom-Up and Top-Down Mechanisms....Pages 61-68
Pop-Out Theory: Segmentation Without Classification by the Primary Visual Cortex....Pages 69-78
Model-Based Attention Fixation using Log-Polar Images....Pages 79-91
Temporally Faithful Representation of Salient Stimulus Movement Patterns in the Early Visual System....Pages 93-100
Fuzzy Engagement Mechanisms....Pages 101-114
Saliency And Figure-Ground Effects....Pages 115-124
Stimulus-Driven and Goal-Directed Attentional Control....Pages 125-134
Eye Movement Analysis During Visual Exploration of Graphical Interfaces....Pages 135-143
Neural Mechanisms of Attentional Control....Pages 145-154
Symmetry in Computer Vision....Pages 155-170
Spatial Size Limits in Stereoscopic Vision....Pages 171-184
The Complexity of Visual Search Tasks....Pages 185-194
Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Selective Visuo-Spatial Attention on Visual Field Defects in Patients With Cerebral Lesions....Pages 195-203
On Designing Moiré Patterns....Pages 205-217
Connectionist Models of Attentional Processing....Pages 219-228
Neurobiological Models of Visual Attention....Pages 229-237
The Selective Tuning Model for Visual Attention....Pages 239-249
Multiresolution and Associative Representation of Objects....Pages 251-266
Attentional Pyramidal Neural Mechanisms....Pages 267-279
Back Matter....Pages 281-283

✦ Subjects

Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Neurosciences