Detecting and segmenting salient objects from natural scenes, often referred to as salient
object detection, has attracted great interest in computer vision. While many models have …

Selective visual attention describes the tendency of visual processing to be confined largely
to stimuli that are relevant to behavior. It is among the most fundamental of cognitive …

Real-world scenes comprise a blooming, buzzing confusion of information. To manage this
complexity, visual attention is guided to important scene regions in real time,,,,,–. What …

Abstract Models of gaze allocation in complex scenes are derived mainly from studies of
static picture viewing. The dominant framework to emerge has been image salience, where …

This article reviews the past 25years of research on eye movements (1986–2011).
Emphasis is on three oculomotor behaviors: gaze control, smooth pursuit and saccades, and …

Visual search, a vital task for humans and animals, has also become a common and
important tool for studying many topics central to active vision and cognition ranging from …

We propose a formal Bayesian definition of surprise to capture subjective aspects of sensory
information. Surprise measures how data affects an observer, in terms of differences …

How do people distribute their visual attention in the natural environment? We and our
colleagues have usually addressed this question by showing pictures, photographs or …

Previous work has demonstrated that the human visual system can detect animals in
complex natural scenes very efficiently and rapidly. In particular, using a saccadic choice …

The recent study of overt attention during complex scene viewing has emphasized
explaining gaze behavior in terms of image properties and image salience independently of …