Probabilistic Modeling of Human Visual Attention

Human observer interest can be tractably described using graphical model-motivated energy minimization problems, with large existing eyetracking datasets used for training. The effects of well-studied components such as Persistence of Vision, Foveal Coverage, Inhibition of Return, Local Contrast, and Covert Attention can be estimated using fast probabilistic search methods in order to simulate V1 neuronal processing, with comparison provided against leading psychophysical models (based upon more complex predictive structures).
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Feature-Based Video Registration

I have explored systematic advances in automatic spatio-temporal registration of consumer video, including:
- Sub-sequence voting schemes
- Relaxation of feature uniqueness
- Descriptor "appearance" priors
- Trajectory sampling
Salience-Guided Graphical Modeling for Inpaint Method Selection
Taking as input a correlation of salience (visual cortex excitation) with image or video data, it is possible to learn an optimal decision
boundary relating salience scores and the use of fast interpolation methods over slower patch-based
methods that guarantee good structure
continuation. This boundary is determined by way of feature function weighting in a template-based Conditional Random Field, where decision boundary
construction approximates inference estimation with calculable error bounds and decision regret. More general
connections between probabilistic graphical model theory and decision theory are also pursued on a theoretic level.
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