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Prediction of Search Targets From Fixations in Open-world Settings

Hosnieh Sattar, Sabine Müller, Mario Fritz, Andreas Bulling

arXiv:1502.05137, pp. 1–10, 2015.




Abstract

Previous work on predicting the target of visual search from human fixations only considered closed-world settings in which training labels are available and predictions are performed for a known set of potential targets. In this work we go beyond the state of the art by studying search target prediction in an open-world setting in which we no longer assume that we have fixation data to train for the search targets. We present a dataset containing fixation data of 18 users searching for natural images from three image categories within synthesised image collages of about 80 images. In a closed-world baseline experiment we show that we can predict the correct target image out of a candidate set of five images. We then present a new problem formulation for search target prediction in the open-world setting that is based on learning compatibilities between fixations and potential targets.

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@techreport{sattar15_arxiv, author = {Sattar, Hosnieh and M{\"{u}}ller, Sabine and Fritz, Mario and Bulling, Andreas}, title = {Prediction of Search Targets From Fixations in Open-world Settings}, year = {2015}, pages = {1--10}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05137} }