A Model of Saliency-Based Visual Attention for Rapid Scene Analysis
A Model of Saliency-Based Visual Attention for Rapid Scene Analysis
L. Itti,C. Koch,E. Niebur
1998 · DOI: 10.1109/34.730558
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 11,127 Citations
TLDR
A visual attention system, inspired by the behavior and the neuronal architecture of the early primate visual system, is presented, which breaks down the complex problem of scene understanding by rapidly selecting conspicuous locations to be analyzed in detail.