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Visual Attention in Brains and Computers

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/5514
Date01 September 1986
CreatorsHurlbert, Anya, Poggio, Tomaso
Source SetsM.I.T. Theses and Dissertation
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Format7 p., 1325514 bytes, 522561 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf
RelationAIM-915

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