Visual attention in egocentric field-of-view using RGB-D data

Veronika Olesova; Wanda Benesova; Patrik Polatsek

doi:10.1117/12.2268617

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17 March 2017 Visual attention in egocentric field-of-view using RGB-D data

Veronika Olesova, Wanda Benesova, Patrik Polatsek

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Proceedings Volume 10341, Ninth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2016); 103410T (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2268617
Event: Ninth International Conference on Machine Vision, 2016, Nice, France

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Most of the existing solutions predicting visual attention focus solely on referenced 2D images and disregard any depth information. This aspect has always represented a weak point since the depth is an inseparable part of the biological vision. This paper presents a novel method of saliency map generation based on results of our experiments with egocentric visual attention and investigation of its correlation with perceived depth. We propose a model to predict the attention using superpixel representation with an assumption that contrast objects are usually salient and have a sparser spatial distribution of superpixels than their background. To incorporate depth information into this model, we propose three different depth techniques. The evaluation is done on our new RGB-D dataset created by SMI eye-tracker glasses and KinectV2 device.

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Veronika Olesova, Wanda Benesova, and Patrik Polatsek "Visual attention in egocentric field-of-view using RGB-D data", Proc. SPIE 10341, Ninth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2016), 103410T (17 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2268617

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