Enabling delightful user experiences via predictive models of human attention

People have the remarkable ability to take in a tremendous amount of information (estimated to be ~10¹⁰ bits/s entering the retina) and selectively attend to a few task-relevant and interesting regions for further processing (e.g., memory, comprehension, action). Modeling human attention (the result of which is often called a saliency model) has therefore been of interest across the fields of neuroscience, psychology, human-computer interaction …

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