Process / pipelineVisual attention and computational vision
Visual Saliency Mapping
Visual Saliency Mapping is a computational method for predicting where viewers naturally direct their attention within an image. Grounded in neuroscience and vision science, this pipeline generates attention heat maps that reveal which image regions are most visually compelling, surprising, or distinctive.
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