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Predicting human gaze using low-level saliency combined with face detection

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Predicting human gaze using low-level saliency combined with face detection
Under natural viewing conditions, human observers shift their gaze to allocate processing resources to subsets of the visual input. Many computational models try to predict such voluntary eye and attentional shifts. Although the important role of high level stimulus properties (e.g., semantic information) in search stands undisputed, most models are based on low-level image properties. We here demonstrate that a combined model of face detection and low-level saliency significantly outperforms a low-level model in predicting locations humans fixate on, based on eye-movement recordings of humans observing photographs of natural scenes, most of which contained at least one person. Observers, even when not instructed to look for anything particular, fixate on a face with a probability of over 80% within their first two fixations; furthermore, they exhibit more similar scanpaths when faces are present. Remarkably, our model’s predictive performance in images that do not contain face...
Moran Cerf, Jonathan Harel, Wolfgang Einhäuse
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where NIPS
Authors Moran Cerf, Jonathan Harel, Wolfgang Einhäuser, Christof Koch
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