Artificial Vision

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Attentional Engagement in Vision Systems

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Attention in psychology

1.2.1 Pre-attentive theories

1.2.2 Attentive theories

1.3 Attention in neurosciences

1.3.1 Two visual streams

1.3.2 Attention in visual areas

1.4 The attentional executive system

1.1 INTRODUCTION

The evolution of technology in the last decades has been leading towards active visual sensors: the camera has evolved towards a visual front-end in which single or even multiple points of view are controlled on-line. This new equipment has fostered the development of new areas of research such as exploratory vision, a term introduced by Tsotsos (1994), in which the environment is analysed through a controllable camera exploiting investigations analogous ...