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In this chapter, we explain the motivation of visual saliency computation. This chapter introduces the human vision system by showing some basic concepts and evidence from neurobiology and psychology. These pieces of evidence are concluded to support the computational saliency models in this book. At the end of this chapter, we present a structural overview of the book and briefly conclude the main contribution of our research.
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Li, J., Gao, W. (2014). Introduction. In: Visual Saliency Computation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8408. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05642-5_1
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