Control of Selective Visual Attention: Modeling the "Where" Pathway

Intermediate and higher vision processes require selection of a subset of the available sensory information before further processing. of a spatiallyUsually, this selection is implemented in the form circumscribed region of the visual field, the so-called "focus of attention" which scans the visual scene dependent on the input and of the subject. We here present a model foron the attentional state of the focus of attention in primates, based on a saliencythe control This mechanism is not only expected to model the functionalitymap. of biological vision but also to be essential for the understanding of complex scenes in machine vision.