Contribution of depth to visual attention: comparison of a computer model and human

The research described in this paper aims at assessing the contribution of depth to visual attention. It reports the measurement of depth induced human visual attention derived from fixation patterns and preliminary results of a quantitative comparison with visual attention as modeled by different versions of a computational model. More specifically, a two-cues color model is compared to a three-cues color and depth model. The preliminary conducted experiments give the first hints of the quantitative contribution of depth features in visual attention.