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  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Computer Vision

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  • Human gaze behavior in complex natural scenes is difficult to study experimentally.
  • Historically, attention was thought to be driven by spatial saliency, but object-based attention is increasingly supported.
  • Understanding attentional guidance is crucial for simulating realistic human visual perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a computational framework for simulating human gaze behavior in dynamic scenes.
  • To investigate the relative importance of object-based versus space-based attention in guiding eye movements.
  • To compare different attentional models using realistic scanpath simulations.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a modular computational framework simulating saccade timing and smooth pursuit.
  • Implemented five distinct models: purely spatial (low/high saliency) and object-based (with/without saliency), plus a mixed model.
  • Utilized evolutionary algorithms to optimize model parameters against human scanpath data distributions.

Main Results:

  • An object-based attention model with saliency-guided prioritization and inhibition of return showed the highest similarity to human scanpath statistics.
  • This model accurately reproduced spatial and temporal fixation behaviors, including object interaction.
  • Spatial-only models performed less effectively in capturing human gaze patterns.

Conclusions:

  • Object-level attentional units are critical for guiding human gaze behavior in dynamic environments.
  • Computational models benefit significantly from incorporating object-based attention and selection mechanisms.
  • The findings suggest a shift from purely location-based to object-centric processing in visual attention research.