Center-surround patterns emerge as optimal predictors for human saccade targets.
TLDR
It is shown that center-surround patterns emerge as the optimal solution for predicting saccade targets from their local image structure, and bottom-up visual saliency may not be computed cortically as has been thought previously.Abstract:
The human visual system is foveated, that is, outside the central visual field resolution and acuity drop rapidly.Nonetheless much of a visual scene is perceived after only a few saccadic eye movements, suggesting an effectivestrategy for selecting saccade targets. It has been known for some time that local image structure at saccade targetsinfluences the selection process. However, the question of what the most relevant visual features are is still under debate.Here we show that center-surround patterns emerge as the optimal solution for predicting saccade targets from their localimage structure. The resulting model, a one-layer feed-forward network, is surprisingly simple compared to previouslysuggested models which assume much more complex computations such as multi-scale processing and multiple featurechannels. Nevertheless, our model is equally predictive. Furthermore, our findings are consistent with neurophysiologicalhardware in the superior colliculus. Bottom-up visual saliency may thus not be computed cortically as has been thoughtpreviously.Keywords: visual saliency, eye movements, receptive field analysis, classification images, kernel methods,support vector machines, natural scenesCitation: Kienzle, W., Franz, M. O., Scholkopf, B., & Wichmann, F. A. (2009). Center-surround patterns emerge as optimalpredictors for human saccade targets. Journal of Vision, 9(5):7, 1–15, http://journalofvision.org/9/5/7/, doi:10.1167/9.5.7.read more
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