Cosyne 2007 Friday evening, Poster II-2 Decision-theoretic saliency computational principle
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Decision-theoreticsaliency:computationalprinciples,biologi-
calplausibilityandimplicationsforneurophysiologyandpsy-
chophysics
DashanGao1,NunoVasconcelos1
1StatisticalVisualComputingLaboratory,UniversityofCaliforniaSanDiego
Adecision-theoreticformulationofvisualsaliency,firstproposedfortop-downprocessing(objectrecogni-
tion)in(Gao&Vasconcelos,2005)isextendedtotheproblemofbottom-upsaliency.Underthisformula-
tion,optimalityisdefinedintheminimumprobabilityoferrorsense,underaconstraintofcomputational
parsimony.Thesaliencyofthevisualfeaturesatagivenlocationofthevisualfieldisdefinedasthepower
ofthosefeaturestodiscriminatebetweenthestimulusatthelocationandanullhypotheses.Forbottom-up
saliency,thisisthesetofvisualfeaturesthatsurroundthelocationunderconsideration.Discriminationis
definedinaninformation-theoreticsenseandtheoptimalsaliencydetectorderivedforaclassofstimulithat
complieswithknownstatisticalpropertiesofnaturalimages.
Itisshownthattheoptimaldetectorconsistsofwhatisusuallyreferredtoasthestandardarchitecture
ofV1(Carandini,Demb,Mante,Tolhurst,Dan,Olshausen,etal.,2005):acascadeoflinearfiltering,
divisivenormalization,rectificationandspatialpooling.Theoptimaldetectorisalsoshowntoreplicate
thefundamentalpropertiesofthepsychophysicsofsaliency(Treisman&Gelade,1980):stimuluspop-out,
saliencyasymmetriesforstimuluspresencevs.absence,disregardoffeatureconjunctions,andWeber’s
law.Finally,itisshownthattheoptimalsaliencyarchitecturecanbeappliedtothesolutionofgeneric
inferenceproblems.Inparticular,fortheclassstimulistudied,itperformsthethreefundamentaloperations
ofstatisticalinference:assessmentofprobabilities,implementationofBayesdecisionrule,andfeature
selection.
Acknowledgments
ThisresearchwassupportedbyNSFCareerawardIIS-0448609,NSFawardIIS-0534985,andagiftfrom
GoogleInc.
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