Final Program

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Invited Talks

Technical Program

Opening

8:30   WELCOME - Laurent Itti & Lucas Paletta

Session 1: Context and Selective Attention

8:40   Human Learning of Contextual Priors for Object Search: Where does the time go?
Barbara Hidalgo-Sotelo, Aude Oliva, Antonio Torralba
MIT, MA, USA
9:00   Contextual Learning in the Selective Attention for Identification model (CL-SAIM):Modeling contextual cueing in visual search tasks
Andreas Backhaus, Dietmar Heinke, Glyn W. Humphreys
Univ. Birmingham, UK
9:20   Gist: A Mobile Robotics Application of Context-Based Vision in Outdoor Environment
Christian Siagian, Laurent Itti
Univ. Southern California, CA, USA
9:40   Object-based visual attention: a model for a behaving robot
Francesco Orabona, Giorgio Metta, Giulio Sandini
Univ. Genova, Italy
10:00   coffee break

Invited Talk 1

10:30  

Christof Koch
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

Session 2: Saliency & Object Recognition

11:15   An Experimental Comparison of Three Guiding Principles for the Detection of Salient Image Locations: Stability, Complexity, and Discrimination
Dashan Gao, Nuno Vasconcelos
Univ. San Diego, CA, USA
11:35   An Evaluation of Motion in Artificial Selective Attention
Bruce Draper, Trent Williams
Colorado State University, CO, USA
11:55   A Swarm-Based Volition/Attention Framework for Object Recognition
Swarup Medasani, Yuri Owechko
HRL Laboratories, CA, USA
12:15   lunch

Afternoon

13:30   Afternoon session welcome - Laurent Itti & Lucas Paletta

Invited Talk 2

13:35  

Invited talk: Alva Noe, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA (to be confirmed)

Session 3: Sequential Attention I

14:20   Combining attention and recognition for rapid scene analysis
James Bonaiuto, Laurent Itti
Univ. Southern California, CA, USA
14:40   Selective Attention in the Learning of Invariant Representation of Objects
James Clark, Muhua Li
McGill University, Canada
15:00   coffee break

Session 4: Sequential Attention II

15:30   Generating Sequence of Eye Fixations Using Decision-theoretic Attention Model
Norman Balder, Erdan Gu, Jingbin Wang
Center for Human Modeling and Simulation, PA, USA
15:50   Cascaded Sequential Attention for Object Recognition with Informative Local Descriptors and Q-learning of Grouping Strategies
Lucas Paletta, Christin Seifert, Gerald Fritz
Joanneum Research, Austria

Finish

16:10   GENERAL DISCUSSION and CLOSING WORDS -
Laurent Itti & Lucas Paletta