FOCUS OF ATTENTION AND REGION SEGREGATION BY LOW-LEVEL GEOMETRY

J. A. Martins, J. A. Rodrigues, J. M. H. du Buf

2009

Abstract

Research has shown that regions with conspicuous colours are very effective in attracting attention, and that regions with different textures also play an important role. We present a biologically plausible model to obtain a saliency map for Focus-of-Attention (FoA), based on colour and texture boundaries. By applying grouping cells which are devoted to low-level geometry, boundary information can be completed such that segregated regions are obtained. Furthermore, we show that low-level geometry, in addition to rendering filled regions, provides important local cues like corners, bars and blobs for region categorisation. The integration of FoA, region segregation and categorisation is important for developing fast gist vision, i.e., which types of objects are about where in a scene.

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A. Martins J., A. Rodrigues J. and M. H. du Buf J. (2009). FOCUS OF ATTENTION AND REGION SEGREGATION BY LOW-LEVEL GEOMETRY . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 267-272. DOI: 10.5220/0001768502670272


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={J. A. Martins and J. A. Rodrigues and J. M. H. du Buf},
title={FOCUS OF ATTENTION AND REGION SEGREGATION BY LOW-LEVEL GEOMETRY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={267-272},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001768502670272},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - FOCUS OF ATTENTION AND REGION SEGREGATION BY LOW-LEVEL GEOMETRY
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - A. Martins J.
AU - A. Rodrigues J.
AU - M. H. du Buf J.
PY - 2009
SP - 267
EP - 272
DO - 10.5220/0001768502670272