Tag: computational attention

Applications of Saliency Models – Part Three

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

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Attention in computer science – Part 2

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

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How to measure attention?

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

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Why computers should be attentive?

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

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