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Human gaze control during real-world scene perception
1Psychology Research Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117, USA. john@eyelab.msu.edu
Abstract:
In human vision, acuity and color sensitivity are best at the point of fixation, and the visual-cognitive system exploits this fact by actively controlling gaze to direct fixation towards important and informative scene regions in real time as needed. How gaze control operates over complex real-world scenes has recently become of central concern in several core cognitive science disciplines including cognitive psychology, visual neuroscience, and machine vision. This article reviews current approaches and empirical findings in human gaze control during real-world scene perception.
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