VOCUS: A Visual Attention System for Object Detection and Goal-Directed Search

• Main Author: Frintrop, Simone (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3899
• Subjects: Computer science.; Algorithms.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer graphics.; Image processing.; Pattern recognition.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Pattern Recognition.; Computer Graphics.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.

Object detection and recognition is a topic of significant interest in computer and robot vision. It is required in most applications of computational vision, for example, biometric systems, medical imaging, intelligent cars, factory automation, and image databases. One of the major challenges in de...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Background on Visual Attention
• 3 State of the Art of Computational Attention Systems
• 4 The Visual Attention System VOCUS: Bottom-Up Part
• 5 The Visual Attention System VOCUS: Top-Down Extension
• 6 Sensor Fusion
• 7 Attentive Classification
• 8 Conclusion
• A Basics of Computer Vision
• B The Viola-Jones Classifier
• C Explanation of Color Figures.