Applications in Computer Vision, Image Retrieval and Robotics
2013
In this chapter, we begin to switch our focus from the visual attention modelling of Chapters 3-6 to the applications of these models. In Chapter 7, we first introduce the conventional engineering methods for object detection and recognition in Section 7.1. Then attention modelling combined with object detection and recognition for natural scenes is presented in Section 7.2. Since satellite images are different from natural images, in Section 7.3 we introduce the attention assisted object detection and recognition for satellite images. Section 7.4 presents image retrieval via visual attention. Another application of visual attention is presented finally for robots. This chapter does not try to introduce all aspects and works related to computer vision, image retrieval and robotics based on visual attention, but only demonstrates some typical methods of combining visual attention with conventional engineering methods. Readers can infer other aspects from these introduced applications.