Interactions of visual attention and object recognition : computational modeling, algorithms, and psychophysics.
Dirk B. Walther · 2006
iii iv I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Christof Koch, for his guidance and patience throughout the work that led to this thesis. He and the other members of my advisory committee, Dr. Pietro Perona, Dr. Laurent Itti, Dr. Shinsuke Shimojo, and Dr. Richard Andersen, helped me to stay focused when I was about to embark on yet another project. It was an honor and pleasure to collaborate with Ueli Rutishauser and Dr. Fei-Fei Li at Caltech;