结合纹理与结构特征,预测人眼在图像中搜索时的注意力区域。
Predicting Region of Interest in Human Visual Search Based on Statistical Texture and Gabor Features
- 用Gabor和GLCM特征融合建模早期视觉搜索行为
- 预测的注视区域与真实眼动数据高度一致
- 适合医学图像分析与视觉模型研究者
理解人类视觉搜索行为是视觉科学与计算机视觉中的基础问题,对建模观察者在位置未知搜索任务中的注意力分配具有直接意义。本研究探讨了基于Gabor的特征与基于灰度共生矩阵(GLCM)的纹理特征在建模早期视觉搜索行为中的关系。提出两种特征融合方案,整合Gabor与GLCM特征以缩小可能的人类注视区域范围。在模拟数字乳腺断层成像图像上评估结果,显示所提方案预测的注视候选区域与阈值化模型观测器结果具有定性一致性。观察到GLCM均值与Gabor特征响应间存在强相关性,表明尽管形式不同,这些特征编码了相关图像信息。来自真人观察者的追踪数据进一步表明,预测的注视区域与早期注视行为具有一致性。这些发现凸显了结合结构与纹理特征在建模视觉搜索中的价值,并支持发展感知驱动的观测模型。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Understanding human visual search behavior is a fundamental problem in vision science and computer vision, with direct implications for modeling how observers allocate attention in location-unknown search tasks. In this study, we investigate the relationship between Gabor-based features and gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) based texture features in modeling early-stage visual search behavior. Two feature-combination pipelines are proposed to integrate Gabor and GLCM features for narrowing the region of possible human fixations. The pipelines are evaluated using simulated digital breast tomosynthesis images. Results show qualitative agreement among fixation candidates predicted by the proposed pipelines and a threshold-based model observer. A strong correlation is observed between GLCM mean and Gabor feature responses, indicating that these features encode related image information despite their different formulations. Eye-tracking data from human observers further suggest consistency between predicted fixation regions and early-stage gaze behavior. These findings highlight the value of combining structural and texture-based features for modeling visual search and support the development of perceptually informed observer models.
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