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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3899)
Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- automation
- biologically motivated systems
- classification
- cognition
- cognitive systems
- computational attention
- computer vision
- goal-directed image search
- information extraction
- object detection
- object recognition
- robot
- robot vision
- robotics
- algorithm analysis and problem complexity
About this book
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 designing object recognition systems is to construct methods that are fast and capable of operating on standard computer platforms. The more developed such systems become, the more urgent becomes the need for a pre-selection system that enables subsequent processing to focus only on relevant data. One mechanism to achieve this is visual attention: it selects regions in a visual scene that are most likely to contain objects of interest. The field of visual attention is currently the focus of much research for both biological and artificial systems.
This monograph presents a complete computational system for visual attention and object detection: VOCUS (Visual Object detection with a CompUtational attention System) is a system capable of automatically selecting regions of interest in images and detecting specific objects. It represents a major step forward on integrating data-driven and model-driven information into a single framework. Additionally, the volume contains an extensive review of the literature on visual attention, detailed evaluations of VOCUS in different settings, and applications of the system in the context of object recognition and robotics.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: VOCUS: A Visual Attention System for Object Detection and Goal-Directed Search
Authors: Simone Frintrop
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11682110
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-32759-2Published: 06 April 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-32760-8Published: 28 March 2006
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 216
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Computer Graphics, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity