Fixation Duration Is Related to Local Image Statistics During Real-World Scene Viewing

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Brockmole ◽  
Michael L. Mack ◽  
Monica S. Castelhano ◽  
Aude Oliva ◽  
John M. Henderson
2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsueh-Cheng Wang ◽  
Alex D. Hwang ◽  
Marc Pomplun

During text reading, the durations of eye fixations decrease with greater frequency and predictability of the currently fixated word (Rayner, 1998; 2009). However, it has not been tested whether those results also apply to scene viewing. We computed object frequency and predictability from both linguistic and visual scene analysis (LabelMe, Russell et al., 2008), and Latent Semantic Analysis (Landauer et al., 1998) was applied to estimate predictability. In a scene-viewing experiment, we found that, for small objects, linguistics-based frequency, but not scene-based frequency, had effects on first fixation duration, gaze duration, and total time. Both linguistic and scene-based predictability affected total time. Similar to reading, fixation duration decreased with higher frequency and predictability. For large objects, we found the direction of effects to be the inverse of those found in reading studies. These results suggest that the recognition of small objects in scene viewing shares some characteristics with the recognition of words in reading.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 124a
Author(s):  
Jonathan Victor ◽  
Mary M Conte
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2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Victor ◽  
Daniel Thengone ◽  
Mary Conte

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 546-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michi Matsukura ◽  
James R. Brockmole ◽  
Walter R. Boot ◽  
John M. Henderson

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueyang Xu ◽  
Ashish Raj ◽  
Jonathan Victor ◽  

AbstractAn important heuristic in developing image processing technologies is to mimic the computational strategies used by humans. Relevant to this, recent studies have shown that the human brain’s processing strategy is closely matched to the characteristics of natural scenes, both in terms of global and local image statistics. However, structural MRI images and natural scenes have fundamental differences: the former are two-dimensional sections through a volume, the latter are projections. MRI image formation is also radically different from natural image formation, involving acquisition in Fourier space, followed by several filtering and processing steps that all have the potential to alter image statistics. As a consequence, aspects of the human visual system that are finely-tuned to processing natural scenes may not be equally well-suited for MRI images, and identification of the differences between MRI images and natural scenes may lead to improved machine analysis of MRI.With these considerations in mind, we analyzed spectra and local image statistics of MRI images in several databases including T1 and FLAIR sequence types and of simulated MRI images,[1]–[6] and compared this analysis to a parallel analysis of natural images[7] and visual sensitivity[7][8]. We found substantial differences between the statistical features of MRI images and natural images. Power spectra of MRI images had a steeper slope than that of natural images, indicating a lack of scale invariance. Independent of this, local image statistics of MRI and natural images differed: compared to natural images, MRI images had smaller variations in their local two-point statistics and larger variations in their local three-point statistics – to which the human visual system is relatively insensitive. Our findings were consistent across MRI databases and simulated MRI images, suggesting that they result from brain geometry at the scale of MRI resolution, rather than characteristics of specific imaging and reconstruction methods.


2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1233-1233
Author(s):  
J. Victor ◽  
D. Thengone ◽  
C. Chubb ◽  
M. Conte

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