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A plethora of research in the literature shows how human eye fixation pattern varies depending on different factors, including genetics, age, social functioning, cognitive functioning, and so on. Analysis of these variations in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Shafin Rahman , Sejuti Rahman , Omar Shahid , Md. Tahmeed Abdullah , Jubair Ahmed Sourov

This article reports on an investigation of the use of convolutional neural networks to predict the visual attention of chess players. The visual attention model described in this article has been created to generate saliency maps that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-21 Justin Le Louedec , Thomas Guntz , James Crowley , Dominique Vaufreydaz

Visual attention is one of the most significant characteristics for selecting and understanding the outside redundancy world. The human vision system cannot process all information simultaneously due to the visual information bottleneck. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Qiang Li

In target-driven navigation and autonomous exploration, reasonable prediction of unknown regions is crucial for efficient navigation and environment understanding. Existing methods mostly focus on single objects or geometric occupancy maps,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiaxuan He , Jiamei Ren , Chongshang Yan , Wenjie Song

Cultural heritage understanding and preservation is an important issue for society as it represents a fundamental aspect of its identity. Paintings represent a significant part of cultural heritage, and are the subject of study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Mohamed Amine Kerkouri , Marouane Tliba , Aladine Chetouani , Alessandro Bruno

Computational human attention modeling in free-viewing and task-specific settings is often studied separately, with limited exploration of whether a common representation exists between them. This work investigates this question and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Fatma Youssef Mohammed , Kostas Alexis

To predict the most salient regions of complex natural scenes, saliency models commonly compute several feature maps (contrast, orientation, motion...) and linearly combine them into a master saliency map. Since feature maps have different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Antoine Coutrot , Nathalie Guyader

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in understanding visual content, yet their ability to predict where humans look on user interfaces remains unexplored. We present UIGaze, a study investigating how closely…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Min Song , Yoonseong Lee , Yeonhu Seo

We define the task of salient structure (SS) detection to unify the saliency-related tasks like fixation prediction, salient object detection, and other detection of structures of interest. In this study, we propose a unified framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Kai-Fu Yang , Hui Li , Chao-Yi Li , Yong-Jie Li

This paper addresses the challenging problem of estimating the general visual attention of people in images. Our proposed method is designed to work across multiple naturalistic social scenarios and provides a full picture of the subject's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Eunji Chong , Nataniel Ruiz , Yongxin Wang , Yun Zhang , Agata Rozga , James Rehg

We introduce SaltiNet, a deep neural network for scanpath prediction trained on 360-degree images. The model is based on a temporal-aware novel representation of saliency information named the saliency volume. The first part of the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Marc Assens , Kevin McGuinness , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Noel E. O'Connor

Visual highlighting can guide user attention in complex interfaces. However, its effectiveness under limited attentional capacities is underexplored. This paper examines the joint impact of visual highlighting (permanent and dynamic) and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Anwesha Das , Zekun Wu , Iza Škrjanec , Anna Maria Feit

This paper revisits visual saliency prediction by evaluating the recent advancements in this field such as crowd-sourced mouse tracking-based databases and contextual annotations. We pursue a critical and quantitative approach towards some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Hamed R. Tavakoli , Fawad Ahmed , Ali Borji , Jorma Laaksonen

Visual Attention Models (VAMs) predict the location of an image or video regions that are most likely to attract human attention. Although saliency detection is well explored for 2D image and video content, there are only few attempts made…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-14 Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi , Eleni Nasiopoulos , Mahsa T. Pourazad , Panos Nasiopoulos

The last years have seen a surge in models predicting the scanpaths of fixations made by humans when viewing images. However, the field is lacking a principled comparison of those models with respect to their predictive power. In the past,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Matthias Kümmerer , Matthias Bethge

Predicting human scanpaths when exploring panoramic videos is a challenging task due to the spherical geometry and the multimodality of the input, and the inherent uncertainty and diversity of the output. Most previous methods fail to give…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Mu Li , Kanglong Fan , Kede Ma

Object Referring-guided Scanpath Prediction (ORSP) aims to predict the human attention scanpath when they search for a specific target object in a visual scene according to a linguistic description describing the object. Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Rong Quan , Yantao Lai , Dong Liang , Jie Qin

Modeling eye movement indicative of expertise behavior is decisive in user evaluation. However, it is indisputable that task semantics affect gaze behavior. We present a novel approach to gaze scanpath comparison that incorporates…

Reusable embeddings of user behaviour have shown significant performance improvements for the personalised saliency prediction task. However, prior works require explicit user characteristics and preferences as input, which are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Florian Strohm , Mihai Bâce , Andreas Bulling

Modeling visual saliency in graphical user interfaces (GUIs) allows to understand how people perceive GUI designs and what elements attract their attention. One aspect that is often overlooked is the fact that computational models depend on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Parvin Emami , Yue Jiang , Zixin Guo , Luis A. Leiva