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This paper presents a novel “hierarchical selectivity” mechanism for object-based visual attention. This mechanism integrates visual salience from bottom-up groupings and the top-down attentional setting. Under its guidance, covert visual attention can shift not only from one grouping to another but also from a grouping to its sub-groupings at a single resolution or multiple varying resolutions. Both object-based and space-based selection is integrated to give a visual attention mechanism that has multiple and hierarchical selectivity.
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Sun, Y., Fisher, R. (2002). Hierarchical Selectivity for Object-Based Visual Attention. In: Bülthoff, H.H., Wallraven, C., Lee, SW., Poggio, T.A. (eds) Biologically Motivated Computer Vision. BMCV 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2525. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36181-2_43
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