Inducing the focus of attention by observing patterns in space

This paper builds on existing work on learning protocol behaviour from observation to propose a new framework for visual attention. The main contribution of this work resides in the fact that attention is not given a priori to the vision system but learned by induction from the active observation of patterns in space. These patterns are sequences of coloured objects that are placed by an agent in a camera field of view. Therefore, in this work we propose a method for learning the focus of attention from the visual observation of tasks executed by an agent. The description of objects in space in terms of observer-object relative frames of references, named local cardinal systems is a second contribution of this work.