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A simple method to obtain visual attention data in head mounted virtual reality

Upenik, Evgeniy  
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Ebrahimi, Touradj  
2017
2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)
2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)

Automatic prediction of salient regions in images is a well developed topic in the field of computer vision. Yet, virtual reality omnidirectional visual content brings new challenges to this topic, due to a different representation of visual information and additional degrees of freedom available to viewers. Having a model for visual attention is important to continue research in this direction. In this paper we develop such a model for head direction trajectories. The method consists of three basic steps: First, a computed head angular speed is used to exclude the parts of a trajectory where motion is too fast to fixate viewer's attention. Second, fixation locations of different subjects are fused together, optionally preceded by a re-sampling step to conform to the equal distribution of points on a sphere. Finally, a Gaussian based filtering is performed to produce continuous fixation maps. The developed model can be used to obtain ground truth experimental data when eye tracking is not available.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ICMEW.2017.8026231
Author(s)
Upenik, Evgeniy  
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Ebrahimi, Touradj  
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

IEEE

Published in
2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)
ISBN of the book

978-1-5386-0560-8

Subjects

visual attention

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fixation maps

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omnidirectional visual content

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virtual reality

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360-degree images and video

Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
GR-EB  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)

Hong Kong

July 10-14, 2017

Available on Infoscience
April 20, 2017
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/136546
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