• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.55-72
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• 2017

Many of the studies of visual attention that are currently underway are seeking ways to make application systems that can be used in practice, and obtained good results using not only simulated images but also real-world images. However, despite that previous studies of selective visual attention are models intended to implement the human vision, few experiments verified the models with actual humans and there is no standardized data nor standardized experimental method for actual images. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new performance evaluation techniques necessary for evaluation of visual attention systems. We developed an evaluation method for evaluating the performance of the visual attention system through comparison with the results of the human experiments on visual attention. Human experiments on visual attention is an experiments where human beings are instinctively aware of the unconscious when images are given to humans. So it can be useful for evaluating performance of the bottom-up attention system. Also we propose a new selective attention system that guides the user to effectively detect ROI regions by using spatial and temporal features adaptively selected according to the input image. We evaluated the performance of proposed visual attention system through the developed performance evaluation method, and we could confirm that the results of the visual attention system are similar to those of the human visual attention.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권9호
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• pp.1613-1631
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• 2011

Several metrics have been reported in the literature to assess stereo image quality, mostly based on visual attention or human visual sensitivity based distortion prediction with the help of disparity information, which do not consider the combined aspects of human visual processing. In this paper, visual attention and depth assisted stereo image quality assessment model (VAD-SIQAM) is devised that consists of three main components, i.e., stereo attention predictor (SAP), depth variation (DV), and stereo distortion predictor (SDP). Visual attention is modeled based on entropy and inverse contrast to detect regions or objects of interest/attention. Depth variation is fused into the attention probability to account for the amount of changed depth in distorted stereo images. Finally, the stereo distortion predictor is designed by integrating distortion probability, which is based on low-level human visual system (HVS), responses into actual attention probabilities. The results show that regions of attention are detected among the visually significant distortions in the stereo image pair. Drawbacks of human visual sensitivity based picture quality metrics are alleviated by integrating visual attention and depth information. We also show that positive correlation with ground-truth attention and depth maps are increased by up to 0.949 and 0.936 in terms of the Pearson and the Spearman correlation coefficients, respectively.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.239-242
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• 2001

As systems for real time computer vision are confronted with prodigious amounts of visual information, it has become a priority to locate and analyze just that information essential to the task at hand, while ignoring the vast flow of irrelevant detail. A method of achieving this is to using human visual attention mechanism. In this paper, short review of human visual attention mechanisms and some computation models of visual attention were shown. This paper can be used as the basic data for researches on development of visual attention system that can perform various complex tasks more efficiently.

• 한국엔터테인먼트산업학회논문지
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.505-514
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• 2019

본 연구는 전통적 종이형태의 평가와 전자매체를 이용한 평가적용에 따른 지적장애인들의 시지각과 주의집중의 차이를 분석하는 데 있다. 연구대상은 지적장애인 12명이다. 대상자들에게 전통적 평가방식과 전자매체를 활용한 평가방식을 적용하였으며, 그 차이를 비교하였으며, 그 차이를 비교하기 위해 대상자들의 시지각과 시각적 주의집중을 평가하였다. 시지각을 평가하기 위해 Motor free visual perception test-3를 활용하였으며, 주의집중을 평가하기 위해 Trail making test를 활용하였다. 그 결과, 전자매체를 적용한 평가에서 대상자들의 시지각과 주의집중 모두 높게 나타났다. 전자매체는 지적장애인들의 시지각과 주의집중에 영향을 줄 수 있는 요인으로 작용할 수 있다. 따라서, 지적장애인들에게 전자매체를 적용할 경우 이러한 차이를 고려하여야 할 것이다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.3791-3805
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• 2016

The visual attention mechanism includes 2 attention models, the bottom-up (B-U) and the top-down (T-D), the physiology of which have not yet been accurately described. In this paper, the visual attention mechanism is regarded as a Bayesian fusion process, and a visual attention model based on particle filter is proposed. Under certain particular assumed conditions, a calculation formula of Bayesian posterior probability is deduced. The visual attention fusion process based on the particle filter is realized through importance sampling, particle weight updating, and resampling, and visual attention is finally determined by the particle distribution state. The test results of multigroup images show that the calculation result of this model has better subjective and objective effects than that of other models.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.300-306
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• 2012

An image attention model and its application to image quality assessment are discussed in this paper. The attention model is based on rarity quantification, which is related to self-information to attract the attention in an image. It is relatively simpler than the others but results in taking more consideration of global contrasts between a pixel and the whole image. The visual attention model is used to develop a local distortion predictor, named color visual differences predictor (CVDP), in color images in order to effectively detect luminance and color distortions.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.99-104
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• 2014

Generally, human eye blinks are closely associated with the cognitive state or visual attention such as attentional requirements on visual stimuli. These previous studies have reported that eye blinks are related to explicit visual attention using blink rate, pattern and blink timing across subjects. However, these results have been obtained in a well-controlled experimental settings. So, it would prove difficult to investigate human's natural response in a continuous and realistic situation. In our study, we measured the eye blink intervals while participants viewed a movie clip. And we analyzed the blink interval data for relationship between visual attention and eye blink intervals. 24 participants took part in two experimental sessions, first session to measure the IEBI while viewing the movie clip and second session to conduct a memory performance test using a self-questionnaire, which were spaced 3 weeks apart. The results indicate significantly higher memory performance at long IEBI period than short IEBI period while watching a movie clip(t = 3.257, df = 17, p < 0.005, 2-tailed). In addition, memory performance score significantly correlated with the IEBI value(spearman's rho = 0.40, N = 36, p < 0.01, 2-tailed). Our results suggest that IEBI is used to measure or assess visual attention while wiewing the movie that it is capable of simulating aspects of real-life experiences by visual attention. Thus, we expect IEBI to be used to measure or assess our visual attention, cognition, further emotion about not only movies, advertisements and other cultural contents but also cognitive science.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.253-263
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• 2014

In the near future, traditional narrow and fixed viewpoint video services will be replaced by high-quality panorama video services. This paper proposes a visual-attention-aware progressive region of interest (RoI) trick mode streaming service (VA-PRTS) that prioritizes video data to transmit according to the visual attention and transmits prioritized video data progressively. VA-PRTS enables the receiver to speed up the time to display without degrading the perceptual quality. For the proposed VA-PRTS, this paper defines a cutoff visual attention metric algorithm to determine the quality of the encoded video slice based on the capability of visual attention and the progressive streaming method based on the priority of RoI video data. Compared to conventional methods, VA-PRTS increases the bitrate saving by over 57% and decreases the interactive delay by over 66%, while maintaining a level of perceptual video quality. The experiment results show that the proposed VA-PRTS improves the quality of the viewer experience for interactive panoramic video streaming services. The development results show that the VA-PRTS has highly practical real-field feasibility.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.609-620
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• 2015

시청자들은 영상을 시청할 때 화면상 시각이 집중된 곳 주변의 정보를 영향력 있게 받아들일 가능성이 크다. 이러한 사실을 이용하여 최근 연구들은 시각 주의 모델을 영상 제작 및 평가 방법에 이용하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 실제로 사람들의 시각 주의도가 어떠한 인자에 영향을 많이 받는지, 또 시각 주의 모델은 구체적으로 어떠한 형태가 되는지를 통계적 실험 계획법을 이용하여 추정하였다. 분산 분석법을 이용하여 속도, 화면으로부터의 거리, 비초점흐림 정도가 시각 주의에 영향을 미치는 유의한 인자인 것을 확인하였고 반응 표면 계획법을 이용하여 이 세가지 인자들에 따른 시각 주의 점수 모델을 도출하였다. 이 시각 주의 점수 모델로부터 영상 각 픽셀의 시각 주의 확률을 구하였다. 본 연구의 뒷부분에서는 시각주의 확률 모델을 기존의 기울기(gradient) 기반 3차원 영상의 입체감 측정법에 적용하는 방법을 제안하였다. 화면 상에서 시선을 집중할 확률이 큰 부분에 높은 비중을 둠으로써 기존의 방법 보다 시청자가 느끼는 입체감을 더욱 정확하게 측정할 수 있도록 하였다. 제안한 방법의 성능을 검증하기 위해 주관적 평가를 실시하여 피실험자들이 느끼는 입체감과 제안된 방법으로부터 도출한 결과를 비교하였다. 실험 결과 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법에 비해 성능이 높은 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.428-438
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to analyze the visual attention of elementary school students according to the editorial design of the 2007 2009 revised elementary science textbook 'Structure and function of our body'. For this purpose, eye movements were collected while elementary school students were watching real textbooks wearing mobile eye tracker. The BeGaze 3.7 program of SMI company was used analyzing eye movements. Twenty-six elementary school students participated voluntarily in mobile tracking research. Elementary students learned the contents of textbook related to 'digestive organ' and 'respiratory organ' by using double reading learning strategy. The results of this study are as follows. First, as a result of pre- and post-knowledge tests, there was no statistically significant difference in learning effect between 2007 revised and 2009 revised textbook editing design. Second, elementary school students tended to give more visual attention to text than textbook illustrations. Third, the selective attention and persistent attention of elementary students showed a very strong positive correlation (.940), but the selective attention and self-control showed a strong positive correlation (.499). Fourth, students with high level of attention and low level showed high visual occupancy in text than in illustrations. Fifth, elementary school students preferred the 2009 revised science textbook to the 2007 revised.