We present an approach for designing interest operators that are based on human eye movement statistics. In contrast to existing methods which use hand-crafted saliency measures, we use machine learning methods to infer an interest operator directly from eye movement data. That way, the operator provides a measure of biologically plausible interestingness. We describe the data collection, training, and evaluation process, and show that our learned saliency measure significantly accounts for human eye movements. Furthermore, we illustrate connections to existing interest operators, and present a multi-scale interest point detector based on the learned function.
Author(s): | Kienzle, W. and Wichmann, FA. and Schölkopf, B. and Franz, MO. |
Book Title: | CVPWR 2006 |
Journal: | Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPRW 2006) |
Pages: | page 24 |
Year: | 2006 |
Month: | April |
Day: | 0 |
Editors: | C Schmid and S Soatto and C Tomasi |
Publisher: | IEEE Computer Society |
Bibtex Type: | Conference Paper (inproceedings) |
Address: | Los Alamitos, CA, USA |
DOI: | 10.1109/CVPRW.2006.116 |
Event Name: | 2006 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop |
Event Place: | New York, NY, USA |
Digital: | 0 |
Electronic Archiving: | grant_archive |
Language: | en |
Organization: | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft |
School: | Biologische Kybernetik |
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BibTex
@inproceedings{3950, title = {Learning an Interest Operator from Human Eye Movements}, journal = {Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPRW 2006)}, booktitle = {CVPWR 2006}, abstract = {We present an approach for designing interest operators that are based on human eye movement statistics. In contrast to existing methods which use hand-crafted saliency measures, we use machine learning methods to infer an interest operator directly from eye movement data. That way, the operator provides a measure of biologically plausible interestingness. We describe the data collection, training, and evaluation process, and show that our learned saliency measure significantly accounts for human eye movements. Furthermore, we illustrate connections to existing interest operators, and present a multi-scale interest point detector based on the learned function.}, pages = {page 24}, editors = {C Schmid and S Soatto and C Tomasi}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft}, school = {Biologische Kybernetik}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, month = apr, year = {2006}, slug = {3950}, author = {Kienzle, W. and Wichmann, FA. and Sch{\"o}lkopf, B. and Franz, MO.}, month_numeric = {4} }