Attention in Cognitive Systems. Theories and Systems from an Interdisciplinary Viewpoint 4th International Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems, WAPCV 2007 Hyderabad, India, January 8, 2007 Revised Selected Papers
About this book - This volume provides a much-needed interdisciplinary
angle on the subject of attention in cognitive systems.
It constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of
the 5th International Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems,
WAPCV 2007, held in Hyderabad, India, in January 2007. The workshop
was an associated event of IJCAI 2007, the 20th International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
The 31 revised full papers presented include carefully selected papers
from the WAPCV 2007 workshop together with two invited lectures,
and some revised papers from WAPCV 2005 as well as additionally invited
contributions about current relevant research themes. The papers
are organized in topical sections that cover the embodiment of attention,
cognitive control of attention, and modeling of saliency and visual
search. They also detail material on sequential attention, biological
aspects of attention, and applications of attentive vision.
Keywords: active perception, activity measure, ambient intelligence, attention, biologically motivated vision, cognitive science, computational vision, computer vision, concept learning, context awareness, entropy, event detection, gist perception, information theory, neuroscience, object detection, reinforcement learning, scene recognition, system performance, video analysis, visual attention, visual perception , visual search