Introduction to Visual Attention
Liming Zhang, Weisi Lin · 2013
This chapter introduces basic phenomena, concepts, experiments and technological development for selective visual attention. It also provides relevant references to facilitate model development. The basic phenomena and concepts are given in the first section. Section 1.2 introduces the types of selective visual attention, such as pre-attention and attention, bottom-up attention and top-down attention, attention in parallel and serial processing, and overt and covert attention. Then two phenomena related visual attention models – change blindness and inhibition of return – are discussed in Section 1.3. There is also an overview of different phases of research and development in the related areas, followed by a discussion on the scope of the various chapters in this book.