Gazing Area Analysis and its Application to Image Evaluation

Chizuko ENDO, Norimichi TSUMURA, Hideaki  HANEISHI,  and Yoichi MIYAKE


Department of Information and Image Sciences, Chiba University, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan


Display and Imaging, vol. 4, No. 4,pp.305-310(1996) .[in Japanese]

Abstract
Many quality criteria have been proposed and used for image evalauation. Image quality, however, is dependent on the scene content in subjective evaluation. Eye movements provide useful information in the analysis of subjective evaluation. In this papaer, eye movement is measured and analyzed, and it is shown that the images have particular gazing area which is not dependent on  observers.  Relationship between gazing area and image quality are  analyzed. It is also described that the applications of gazing area to image compression and transmission

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