Invariance Analysis of Saliency Models versus Human Gaze During Scene Free Viewing

10/10/2018
by   Zhaohui Che, et al.
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Most of current studies on human gaze and saliency modeling have used high-quality stimuli. In real world, however, captured images undergo various types of distortions during the whole acquisition, transmission, and displaying chain. Some distortion types include motion blur, lighting variations and rotation. Despite few efforts, influences of ubiquitous distortions on visual attention and saliency models have not been systematically investigated. In this paper, we first create a large-scale database including eye movements of 10 observers over 1900 images degraded by 19 types of distortions. Second, by analyzing eye movements and saliency models, we find that: a) observers look at different locations over distorted versus original images, and b) performances of saliency models are drastically hindered over distorted images, with the maximum performance drop belonging to Rotation and Shearing distortions. Finally, we investigate the effectiveness of different distortions when serving as data augmentation transformations. Experimental results verify that some useful data augmentation transformations which preserve human gaze of reference images can improve deep saliency models against distortions, while some invalid transformations which severely change human gaze will degrade the performance.

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