Visual Attention in Brains and Computers.

Abstract

Existing computer programs designed to perform visual recognition of objects suffer from a basic weakness: the inability to spotlight regions in the image that potentially correspond to objects of interest. The brain's mechanisms of visual attention, elucidated by psychophysicists and neurophysiologists, may suggest a solution to the computer's problem of object recognition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA183849

Entities

People

  • Anya Hurlbert
  • Tomaso Poggio

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Automata Theory
  • Brain
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Image Recognition
  • Information Processing
  • Military Research
  • Object Recognition
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Psychology
  • Recognition

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Neuroscience