The third category of attention-based applications concerns abnormality processing. Some applications go further than the use of the simple detection of the areas of interest. They use comparisons between the areas on the saliency maps…
In this section we focus on a second category of applications based on the locations having the lowest saliency scores. Those areas correspond with repeating and less informative regions, which might be easily compressed…
Attention modeling: a huge range of applications. The applications of saliency maps are numerous and they can occur in many domains. For some applications, the saliency maps and their analyses are the final goal, while for others saliency maps are…
In the previous part we mainly dealt with visibility models and static saliency models of attention. But the notion of computational attention could not remain only focused on static images and it developed in other modalities. Video saliency Some still…
Numediart Institute, Faculty of Engineering (FPMs), University of Mons (UMONS) Matei Mancas, 31 Bd. Dolez, 7000 Mons, Belgium Idea and approaches. As we already saw, attention is a topic which was taken into account by philosophy first, it was than…
There are a lot of ways to measure attention. Some, mainly in psychology, are more qualitative and use questionnaires and their interpretation. Some are quantitative but they focus on the participants feedback (button press, click, etc…) when they see/hear/sense a…
Attention: the technology comes in After the 1980th “crisis” in attention research, two different communities appeared in the study of attention with the arrival of tools providing new insights on brain behavior and with the increasing power of computers. One…
A short history of attention: Human attention is an obvious phenomenon which is active during every single moment of awareness. It was studied first in philosophy, followed by experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience and finally computer science for modeling….
Any animal [1] from the tiniest insect [2] to humans is perfectly able to “pay attention”. Attention is the first step of perception: it analyses the outer real world and turns it into an inner conscious representation. Even during some…
