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Spatial navigation is a complex cognitive function involving sensory inputs, such as visual, auditory, and proprioceptive information, to understand and move within space. This ability allows humans to create mental maps, navigate through…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sobhan Teymouri , Fatemeh Alizadehziri , Mobina Zibandehpoor , Mehdi Delrobaei

Understanding the decision process underlying gaze control is an important question in cognitive neuroscience with applications in diverse fields ranging from psychology to computer vision. The decision for choosing an upcoming saccade…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-27 Noa Malem-Shinitski , Manfred Opper , Sebastian Reich , Lisa Schwetlick , Stefan A. Seelig , Ralf Engbert

Speed and consistency of target-shifting play a crucial role in human ability to perform complex tasks. Shifting our gaze between objects of interest quickly and consistently requires changes both in depth and direction. Gaze changes in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Budmonde Duinkharjav , Benjamin Liang , Anjul Patney , Rachel Brown , Qi Sun

The objects we perceive guide our eye movements when observing real-world dynamic scenes. Yet, gaze shifts and selective attention are critical for perceiving details and refining object boundaries. Object segmentation and gaze behavior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Vito Mengers , Nicolas Roth , Oliver Brock , Klaus Obermayer , Martin Rolfs

This paper addresses the problem of tracking moving objects of variable appearance in challenging scenes rich with features and texture. Reliable tracking is of pivotal importance in surveillance applications. It is made particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-26 Rhys Martin , Ognjen Arandjelović

In this paper a number of problems are considered which are related to the modelling of eye guidance under visual attention in a natural setting. From a crude discussion of a variety of available models spelled in probabilistic terms, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Giuseppe Boccignone

When watching the image of a natural scene on a computer screen, observers initially move their eyes towards the center of the image --- a reliable experimental finding termed central fixation bias. This systematic tendency in eye guidance…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-22 Lars Oliver Martin Rothkegel , Hans Arne Trukenbrod , Heiko Herbert Schütt , Felix Alexander Wichmann , Ralf Engbert

Objective. Decoding visual attention from brain signals during naturalistic video viewing has emerged as a new direction in brain-computer interface research. Current methods assume that stronger coupling between object motion and neural…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Yuanyuan Yao , Celina Salamanca Gonzalez , Simon Geirnaert , Celine R. Gillebert , Tinne Tuytelaars , Alexander Bertrand

In real-world scene perception human observers generate sequences of fixations to move image patches into the high-acuity center of the visual field. Models of visual attention developed over the last 25 years aim to predict two-dimensional…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-15 Lisa Schwetlick , Daniel Backhaus , Ralf Engbert

We propose a computational model of visual search that incorporates Bayesian interpretations of the neural mechanisms that underlie categorical perception and saccade planning. To enable meaningful comparisons between simulated and human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Maell Cullen , Jonathan Monney , M. Berk Mirza , Rosalyn Moran

Primates constantly explore their surroundings via saccadic eye movements that bring different parts of an image into high resolution. In addition to exploring new regions in the visual field, primates also make frequent return fixations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Mengmi Zhang , Marcelo Armendariz , Will Xiao , Olivia Rose , Katarina Bendtz , Margaret Livingstone , Carlos Ponce , Gabriel Kreiman

Eye movements are intricate and dynamic events that contain a wealth of information about the subject and the stimuli. We propose an abstract representation of eye movements that preserve the important nuances in gaze behavior while being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Louise Gillian C. Bautista , Prospero C. Naval

Systems based on bag-of-words models from image features collected at maxima of sparse interest point operators have been used successfully for both computer visual object and action recognition tasks. While the sparse, interest-point based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Stefan Mathe , Cristian Sminchisescu

A mass of traces of human activities show diverse dynamic patterns. In this paper, we comprehensively investigate the dynamic pattern of human attention defined by the quantity of interests on subdisciplines in an online academic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-29 Zhi-Dan Zhao , Ya-Chun Gao , Shi-Min Cai

Humans' ability to detect and locate salient objects on images is remarkably fast and successful. Performing this process by using eye tracking equipment is expensive and cannot be easily applied, and computer modeling of this human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Hamdi Yalin Yalic

When reading, we often have specific information that interests us in a text. For example, you might be reading this paper because you are curious about LLMs for eye movements in reading, the experimental design, or perhaps you wonder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Cfir Avraham Hadar , Omer Shubi , Yoav Meiri , Amit Heshes , Yevgeni Berzak

Eye movements are known to reflect cognitive processes in reading, and psychological reading research has shown that eye gaze patterns differ between readers with and without dyslexia. In recent years, researchers have attempted to classify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Patrick Haller , Andreas Säuberli , Sarah Elisabeth Kiener , Jinger Pan , Ming Yan , Lena Jäger

Preference learning methods, such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), rely on pairwise human judgments, yet little is known about the cognitive processes underlying these judgments.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Nikolas Papadopoulos , Shreenithi Navaneethan , Sheng Bai , Ankur Samanta , Paul Sajda

The accurate visual tracking of a moving object is a human fundamental skill that allows to reduce the relative slip and instability of the object's image on the retina, thus granting a stable, high-quality vision. In order to optimize…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-24 Anna Montagnini , Laurent Perrinet , Guillaume S Masson

One of the major challenges for evaluating the effectiveness of data visualizations and visual analytics tools arises from the fact that different users may be using these tools for different tasks. In this paper, we present a simple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Laura Matzen , Kristin Divis , Deborah Cronin , Michael Haass