This paper presents a method for object recognition, novel object detection, and estimation of the most salient object within a set. Objects are sampled using a scale invariant region detector, and each region is characterized by the subset of texture and color descriptors selected by a Genetic Algorithm (GA). Using multiple views of an object, and multiple regions per view, objects are modeled...

In daily life, humans receive a large quantity of information about the environment through sight and hearing. The fast processing of this information helps us to react rapidly and properly. Hence, there exists a mechanism in the brain to direct attention towards particular regions or events, called salient regions or events. This attentional bias is not only influenced by visual and auditory i...

Recent hemodynamic imaging studies have shown that processing of low probability task-relevant target stimuli (i.e., oddballs) and low probability task-irrelevant novel stimuli elicit widespread activity in diverse, spatially distributed cortical and subcortical systems. The nature of this distributed response supports the model that processing of salient and novel stimuli engages many brain re...

We propose a method for local, region-based matching of planar shapes, especially as those shapes that change over time. This is a problem fundamental to medical imaging, specifically the comparison over time of mammograms. The method is based on the non-emergence and non-enhancement of maxima, as well as the causality principle of integral invariant scale space. The core idea of our Region Mat...

There have been a variety of methods for producing evolutionary art using Genetic Programming and other genetic algorithms. While some have included an underlying image, many of these systems produce aesthetically pleasing abstract images without overt structure. By using a physiologically inspired pulse-coupled neural network to find salient regions in an underlying image, and by subsequently ...

Generally human vision system searches for salient regions and movements in video scenes to lessen the search space and effort. Using visual saliency map for modelling gives important information for understanding in many applications. In this paper we present a simple method with low computation load using visual saliency map for background subtraction in video stream. The proposed technique i...

It is widely reported that individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) direct their attention in an atypical manner. When viewing complex scenes, typically developing individuals look at social aspects of scenes more rapidly than individuals with ASD. In the absence of a strong drive to extract social information, is something else capturing attention in these initial fixations, such as vi...

The human voice is a critical social cue, and listeners are extremely sensitive to the voices in their environment. One of the most salient voices in a child's life is mother's voice: Infants discriminate their mother's voice from the first days of life, and this stimulus is associated with guiding emotional and social function during development. Little is known regarding the functional circui...

Figure 1 to Figure 7 show the additional results of our contents-aware projection method with the results of other projection methods to compare the performance qualitatively. For clear comparison of the proposed contents-aware projection method, we collected additional 360◦ images from the web. We used automatically extracted line segments and salient points as inputs for Carroll’s method and ...