1. Visual Saliency Detection
REU Student: LaTia Jefferson
Graduate Student: Nasim Souly

2. Visual Salience Definition Background research Importance
Human visual system
General saliency
Orientation (scanning process)
Bottom-up versus top-down
Importance
Decreasing the amount of information to process

3. Articles Incremental Sparse Saliency Detection
Yin Li ICIP 2009
Visual Saliency Detection via Sparsity Pursuit
Junchi Yan IEFE 2010
Visual Attention Detection in Video Sequences Using Spatiotemporal Cues
Yun Zhai, Dr. Muarak Shah, UCF

4. Current Research Questions
How to represent 3-dimensional saliency from film or video clips?
How does the HVS model saliency in video?
What are the key parts of attention in video?

5. Next Steps Coding in Matlab Read relevant articles
Starting to vectorize patches and find filters/features for the cuboids
Using the sparse representation package OMP Box
Read relevant articles
Psychology of video salience
Calculating salience in other ways