Title
A visual search system based on multi-scale population cell coding
Abstract
Gaze movement plays an important role in human visual search system. How to simulate such a system to efficiently encode and decode gaze movement for target searching is a meaningful issue. There are two key points that should be addressed for this issue. First, eye movement is affected by the visual context that includes more than one object in images. It is important to study how to encode the spatial relationship between the target and the other objects, and decode the spatial relationship to drive the gaze moving to the target. Second, the human retina has a non-uniform distribution of light sensing neurons, which can be viewed as a composition of neuron arrays in different spatial resolutions. When a system searches a target, how many scales of visual fields should be involved to sense the image stimulus? In this paper, we propose a visual search system using the population cell coding mechanism and the multi-scale visual field as sensing input. As an example, the system is applied to human eye center searching. An experimental comparison of a Full-scale visual field coding system and a Gradual-scale coding system is carried out. The experiment results show the Gradual-scale coding system performs better than Full-scale coding system for target searching.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/COGINF.2010.5599707
IEEE ICCI
Keywords
Field
DocType
human eye center searching,multiscale visual field,image coding,human visual search system,light sensing neurons,gradual-scale coding system,image stimulus,human retina,full-scale visual field coding system,multiscale population cell coding mechnism,gaze movement decoding,eye movement,decoding,spatial relationship decoding,neuron array composition,image motion analysis,pixel,spatial resolution,system performance,uniform distribution,encoding,feature extraction,visual search,visualization,spatial relationships
Visual search,ENCODE,Population,Computer vision,Gaze,Human visual system model,Computer science,Coding (social sciences),Eye movement,Artificial intelligence,Visual field
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISBN
null
null
978-1-4244-8041-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fang Fang175.23
Jun Miao222022.17
Laiyun Qing333724.66
Wen Gao411374741.77