Download or read book VOCUS: A Visual Attention System for Object Detection and Goal-Directed Search written by Simone Frintrop and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents a complete computational system for visual attention and object detection. VOCUS (Visual Object detection with a Computational attention System) represents a major step forward on integrating data-driven and model-driven information into a single framework. Additionally, the volume contains an extensive review of the literature on visual attention, detailed evaluations of VOCUS in different settings, and applications of the system.