Publications related to Visual spatial attention

The effects of visual distractors on serial dependence

Attractive serial dependence occurs when perceptual decisions are attracted toward previous stimuli. This effect is mediated by spatial attention and is most likely to occur when similar stimuli are attended at nearby locations. Attention, however, also in ...

Assoc Research Vision Ophthalmology Inc2023

Saliency prediction in 360° architectural scenes: Performance and impact of daylight variations

Marilyne Andersen, Sabine Süsstrunk, Caroline Karmann, Kynthia Chamilothori, Seungryong Kim, Bahar Aydemir

Saliency models are image-based prediction models that estimate human visual attention. Such models, when applied to architectural spaces, could pave the way for design decisions where visual attention is taken into account. In this study, we tested the pe ...

2023

Neural Distributed Image Compression with Cross-Attention Feature Alignment

Ali Garjani

We consider the problem of compressing an information source when a correlated one is available as side information only at the decoder side, which is a special case of the distributed source coding problem in information theory. In particular, we consider ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Improving Object Detection under Domain Shifts

Vidit Vidit

Object detection plays a critical role in various computer vision applications, encompassing domains like autonomous vehicles, object tracking, and scene understanding. These applica- tions rely on detectors that generate bounding boxes around known object ...

EPFL2023

Towards Visual Saliency Explanations of Face Verification

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu, Zewei Xu

In the past years, deep convolutional neural networks have been pushing the frontier of face recognition (FR) techniques in both verification and identification scenarios. Despite the high accuracy, they are often criticized for lacking explainability. The ...

2024

Deep Generative Models for Autonomous Driving: from Motion Forecasting to Realistic Image Synthesis

Saeed Saadatnejad

Forecasting is a capability inherent in humans when navigating. Humans routinely plan their paths, considering the potential future movements of those around them. Similarly, to achieve comparable sophistication and safety, autonomous systems must embrace ...

EPFL2023

Interpretable temporal-spatial graph attention network for multi-site PV power forecasting

Pascal Frossard, Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel, Pierre-Jean Alet, Baptiste Schubnel, Jelena Simeunovic

Accurate forecasting of photovoltaic (PV) and wind production is crucial for the integration of more renewable energy sources into the power grid. To address the limited resolution and costs of methods based on numerical weather predictions (NWP), we take ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Gradient-based Methods for Deep Model Interpretability

Suraj Srinivas

In this dissertation, we propose gradient-based methods for characterizing model behaviour for the purposes of knowledge transfer and post-hoc model interpretation. Broadly, gradients capture the variation of some output feature of the model upon unit vari ...

EPFL2021

Real-time EEG Feedback on Alpha Power Lateralization Leads to Behavioral Improvements in a Covert Attention Task

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Luca Tonin, Michael Eric Anthony Pereira, Christoph Schneider

Visual attention can be spatially oriented, even in the absence of saccadic eye-movements, to facilitate the processing of incoming visual information. One behavioral proxy for this so-called covert visuospatial attention (CVSA) is the validity effect (VE) ...

SPRINGER2020

Visual Attention and Perceptual Quality in Omnidirectional Imaging

Evgeniy Upenik

Omnidirectional imaging has reached a level of widespread availability driven by recent advances in integrated circuit technology, image sensors, and computer graphics which allow now capturing, rendering and displaying of such type of immersive content in ...

EPFL2020

Nested oscillations and brain connectivity during sequential stages of feature-based attention

David Pascucci, Gijs Plomp

Brain mechanisms of visual selective attention involve both local and network-level activity changes at specific oscillatory rhythms, but their interplay remains poorly explored. Here, we investigate anticipatory and reactive effects of feature-based atten ...

2020

Resting-state EEG topographies: Reliable and sensitive signatures of unilateral spatial neglect

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Elvira Pirondini

Theoretical advances in the neurosciences are leading to the development of an increasing number of proposed interventions for the enhancement of functional recovery after brain damage. Integration of these novel approaches in clinical practice depends on ...

2020

Saliency Driven Perceptual Quality Metric for Omnidirectional Visual Content

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik

The problem of objectively measuring perceptual quality of omnidirectional visual content arises in many immersive imaging applications and particularly in compression. The interactive nature of this type of content limits the performance of earlier method ...

IEEE2019

Towards Modelling of Visual Saliency in Point Clouds for Immersive Applications

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou, Peisen Xu

Modelling human visual attention is of great importance in the field of computer vision and has been widely explored for 3D imaging. Yet, in the absence of ground truth data, it is unclear whether such predictions are in alignment with the actual human vie ...

2019

Augmented Robotics for Learners: A Case Study on Optics

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Amaury Robert Dame, Olguta Robu

In recent years, robots have been surfing on a trendy wave as standard devices for teaching programming. The tangibility of robotics platforms allows for collaborative and interactive learning. Moreover, with these robot platforms, we also observe the occu ...

IEEE2019

Enhanced audio-tactile multisensory interaction in a peripersonal task after echolocation

Andrea Serino

Peripersonal space (PPS) is created by a multisensory interaction between different sensory modalities and can be modified by experience. In this article, we investigated whether an auditory training, inside the peripersonal space area, can modify the PPS ...

Springer2019

Microsaccades Distinguish Looking From Seeing

Andreas Sonderegger, Andrea Regula Schneider

Understanding our visual world requires both looking and seeing. Dissociation of these processes can result in the phenomenon of inattentional blindness or 'looking without seeing'. Concomitant errors in applied settings can be serious, and even deadly. Cu ...

INT GROUP EYE MOVEMENT RESEARCH2019

Using Photorealistic Face Synthesis and Domain Adaptation to Improve Facial Expression Analysis

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Mohammad Saeed Rad, Hazim Kemal Ekenel

Cross-domain synthesizing realistic faces to learn deep models has attracted increasing attention for facial expression analysis as it helps to improve the performance of expression recognition accuracy despite having small number of real training images. ...

IEEE2019

Is lack of attention necessary for task-irrelevant perceptual learning?

Michael Herzog, Lukasz Grzeczkowski, Jessica Galliussi

Perceptual learning can occur for a feature irrelevant to the training task, when it is sub-threshold and outside of the focus of attention (task-irrelevant perceptual learning, TIPL); however, TIPL does not occur when the task-irrelevant feature is supra- ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2018

Differential effects of vestibular processing on orienting exogenous and endogenous covert visual attention

Olaf Blanke, Mariia Kaliuzhna, Andrea Serino, Steve Michel Berger

Recent research highlights the overwhelming role of vestibular information for higher order cognition. Central to body perception, vestibular cues provide information about self-location in space, self-motion versus object motion, and modulate the percepti ...

2019