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ATTENTION based on INFORMATION MAXIMIZATION
Neil D. B. Bruce
Centre of Vision Research and
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
York University
Current contact: Neil.Bruce@sophia.inria.fr
Last update, April 2009
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Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K., Saliency, Attention, and Visual Search: An Information Theoretic Approach, Journal of Vision 9:3, pp.1-24, 2009, http://journalofvision.org/9/3/5/, doi:10.1167/9.3.5.
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Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K., Saliency based on Information Maximization. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 18.
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Bruce, N. Features that draw visual attention: An information theoretic perspective. Neurocomputing, v. 65-66, pp. 125-133, May 2005.
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Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K., Spatiotemporal Saliency: Towards a Hierarchical Representation of Visual Saliency, 5th Int. Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems, Santorini Greece, May 12, 2008.
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Bruce, N.D.B., Tsotsos, J.K., An Information Theoretic Model of Saliency and Visual Search, L. Paletta and E. Rome (Eds.): WAPCV 2007, LNAI 4840, pp. 171–183, 2007.
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Bruce, N.D.B., Image analysis through local information measures. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, UK, 2004.
% The only required argument is the image name
out = AIM(imagename);
% With optional arguments:
% resizesize - A scaling factor (% original image size)
% convolve - convolve the output with a gaussian?
% basisname - the feature set e.g. 21jade950, 31infomax975
% The latter 3 digits correspond to the variance retained
% in PCA which precedes the ICA method named.
% output - show some visualization. This may require
% changing some parameters appearing in the code
% depending on the desired "look".
% out = AIM(imagename,resizesize,convolve,basisname,output);
out2 = AIM('23.jpg',0.5,1,'21jade950.mat',1);Additional options are specified in AIM.m including the ability to modify parameters of the computation not available via the function call.
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