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Visual attention plays a critical role when our visual system executes active visual tasks by interacting with the physical scene. However, how to encode the visual object relationship in the psychological world of our brain deserves to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Kai-Fu Yang , Yong-Jie Li

A user's eyes provide means for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research as an important modal. The time to time scientific explorations of the eye has already seen an upsurge of the benefits in HCI applications from gaze estimation to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Atul Sahay , Imon Mukherjee , Kavi Arya

The eye fixation patterns of human observers are a fundamental indicator of the aspects of an image to which humans attend. Thus, manipulating fixation patterns to guide human attention is an exciting challenge in digital image processing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Leon A. Gatys , Matthias Kümmerer , Thomas S. A. Wallis , Matthias Bethge

This paper proposes joint attention estimation in a single image. Different from related work in which only the gaze-related attributes of people are independently employed, (I) their locations and actions are also employed as contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Chihiro Nakatani , Hiroaki Kawashima , Norimichi Ukita

To bridge the gap between humans and machines in image understanding and describing, we need further insight into how people describe a perceived scene. In this paper, we study the agreement between bottom-up saliency-based visual attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Hamed R. Tavakoli , Rakshith Shetty , Ali Borji , Jorma Laaksonen

Of later years, numerous bottom-up attention models have been proposed on different assumptions. However, the produced saliency maps may be different from each other even from the same input image. We also observe that human fixation map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Jian Li

Saliency Prediction aims to predict the attention distribution of human eyes given an RGB image. Most of the recent state-of-the-art methods are based on deep image feature representations from traditional CNNs. However, the traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Shuo Zhang

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

Gaze is an essential prompt for analyzing human behavior and attention. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in determining gaze direction from facial videos. However, video gaze estimation faces significant challenges, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Swati Jindal , Mohit Yadav , Roberto Manduchi

Computational models of visual attention in artificial intelligence and robotics have been inspired by the concept of a saliency map. These models account for the mutual information between the (current) visual information and its estimated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Ajith Anil Meera , Filip Novicky , Thomas Parr , Karl Friston , Pablo Lanillos , Noor Sajid

Human-Computer Interaction(HCI) is a field that studies interactions between human users and computer systems. With the development of HCI, individuals or groups of people can use various digital technologies to achieve the optimal user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Hoyeon Ahn

Human eyes concentrate different facial regions during distinct cognitive activities. We study utilising facial visual saliency maps to classify different facial expressions into different emotions. Our results show that our novel method of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Zhenyue Qin , Jie Wu

Eye contact is a crucial element of non-verbal communication that signifies interest, attention, and participation in social interactions. As a result, measures of eye contact arise in a variety of applications such as the assessment of the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Eunji Chong , Katha Chanda , Zhefan Ye , Audrey Southerland , Nataniel Ruiz , Rebecca M. Jones , Agata Rozga , James M. Rehg

Visual attention refers to the human brain's ability to select relevant sensory information for preferential processing, improving performance in visual and cognitive tasks. It proceeds in two phases. One in which visual feature maps are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Dario Zanca , Marco Gori , Stefano Melacci , Alessandra Rufa

Traditional gaze estimation methods typically require explicit user calibration to achieve high accuracy. This process is cumbersome and recalibration is often required when there are changes in factors such as illumination and pose. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Zhuoqing Chang , Matias Di Martino , Qiang Qiu , Steven Espinosa , Guillermo Sapiro

Saliency modeling has been an active research area in computer vision for about two decades. Existing state of the art models perform very well in predicting where people look in natural scenes. There is, however, the risk that these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-15 Ali Borji , Laurent Itti

Pose-guided person image synthesis aims to synthesize person images by transforming reference images into target poses. In this paper, we observe that the commonly used spatial transformation blocks have complementary advantages. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Yurui Ren , Yubo Wu , Thomas H. Li , Shan Liu , Ge Li

Humans utilize their gaze to concentrate on essential information while perceiving and interpreting intentions in videos. Incorporating human gaze into computational algorithms can significantly enhance model performance in video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Suleyman Ozdel , Yao Rong , Berat Mert Albaba , Yen-Ling Kuo , Xi Wang , Enkelejda Kasneci

Human pose analysis has garnered significant attention within both the research community and practical applications, owing to its expanding array of uses, including gaming, video surveillance, sports performance analysis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Lijuan Zhou , Xiang Meng , Zhihuan Liu , Mengqi Wu , Zhimin Gao , Pichao Wang

This paper explores the estimation of user attention in the setting of a cooperative handheld robot: a robot designed to behave as a handheld tool but that has levels of task knowledge. We use a tool-mounted gaze tracking system, which,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Janis Stolzenwald , Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas