Title
Psychophysical evaluation of individual low-level feature influences on visual attention.
Abstract
In this study we provide the analysis of eye movement behavior elicited by low-level feature distinctiveness with a dataset of synthetically-generated image patterns. Design of visual stimuli was inspired by the ones used in previous psychophysical experiments, namely in free-viewing and visual searching tasks, to provide a total of 15 types of stimuli, divided according to the task and feature to be analyzed. Our interest is to analyze the influences of low-level feature contrast between a salient region and the rest of distractors, providing fixation localization characteristics and reaction time of landing inside the salient region. Eye-tracking data was collected from 34 participants during the viewing of a 230 images dataset. Results show that saliency is predominantly and distinctively influenced by: 1. feature type, 2. feature contrast, 3. temporality of fixations, 4. task difficulty and 5. center bias. This experimentation proposes a new psychophysical basis for saliency model evaluation using synthetic images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.visres.2018.10.006
Vision Research
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Visual attention,Psychophysics,Saliency,Task,Context,Contrast,Center bias,Low-level,Synthetic,Dataset
Journal
154
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0042-6989
0
0.34
References 
Authors
17
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Berga102.03
Xose R. Fdez-Vidal29914.82
Xavier Otazu354075.05
V. Leborán4132.33
Xose Manuel Pardo512613.25