Guiding visual attention by manipulating orientation in images
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Visual attention plays an important role in directing our gaze to potentially interesting areas in images. Our attention is involuntarily drawn to areas that are perceptually different from their immediate surroundings. Such areas are labeled “salient.” They originate from variations in principal visual features such as color, intensity, and orientation. In this study, we analyze how manipulating the orientation of a particular region of an image affects human visual attention. Statistical Hough transform is applied on a selected region in an image to construct the edge distribution of that region over a range of orientations. The remainder of the image is analyzed using a weighted statistical Hough transform to obtain the edge distribution in the region's surroundings. We measure the dissimilarity between these two distributions as the region is rotated and show that the region becomes more salient as the dissimilarity is increased. This model also allows us to predict the angle of rotation at which the selected region becomes most salient, which enables us to manipulate the image so that the selected region's saliency is maximized. We apply our method to a set of natural images and verify its effectiveness through eye-tracking.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it