Accession Number:

ADA183849

Title:

Visual Attention in Brains and Computers.

Descriptive Note:

Memorandum rept.,

Corporate Author:

MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Hurlbert,Anya
• Poggio,Tomaso

Report Date:

1986-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

8.0

Abstract:

Existing computer programs designed to perform visual recognition of objects suffer from a basic weakness the inability to spotlight regions in the image that potentially correspond to objects of interest. The brains mechanisms of visual attention, elucidated by psychophysicists and neurophysiologists, may suggest a solution to the computers problem of object recognition.

Descriptors:

• *BRAIN
• *COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• *VISUAL PERCEPTION
• *ATTENTION
• *PATTERN RECOGNITION
• COMPUTERS
• SEARCHLIGHTS
• RECOGNITION
• VISION

Subject Categories:

• Cybernetics
• Anatomy and Physiology
• Psychology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE