LEARNING A VISUAL ATTENTION MODEL FOR ADAPTIVE FAST-FORWARD IN VIDEO SURVEILLANCE

摘要

The focus of visual attention is guided by salient signals in the peripheral field of view (bottom-up) as well as by the relevance feedback of a semantic model (top-down). As a result, humans are able to evaluate new situations very fast, with only a view numbers of fixations. In this paper, we present a learned model for the fast prediction of visual attention in video. We consider bottom-up and memory-less top-down mechanisms of visual attention guidance, and apply the model to video playback-speed adaption. The presented visual attention model is based on rectangle features that are fast to compute and capable of describing the known mechanisms of bottom-up processing, such as motion, contrast, color, symmetry, and others as well as top-down cues, such as face and person detectors. We show that the visual attention model outperforms other recent methods in adaption of video playback-speed.