Vanishing Point Attracts Eye Movements in Scene Free-viewing

Abstract

Eye movements are crucial in understanding complex scenes. By predicting where humans look in natural scenes, we can understand how they percieve scenes and priotriaze information for further high-level processing. Here, we study the effect of a particular type of scene structural information known as vanishing point and show that human gaze is attracted to vanishing point regions. We then build a combined model of traditional saliency and vanishing point channel that outperforms state of the art saliency models.