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--- teaching:saliency:saliency_assignment [2019/09/21 17:01] – anthony
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 ====== Attentional saliency in images ======
-[[teaching:saliency:saliency_instructions|Instructions given to students]]
+[[teaching:methods|Back to teaching methods main page]]
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+Students pick an image and circle regions that appear to draw attention to themselves: salient regions.
+The instructor runs the images through the Itti-Koch saliency algorithm, which marks pixels that ought to jump out at viewers because they represent regions that are different from their surroundings.
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+[[teaching:saliency:saliency_instructions|Background and instructions given to students]]
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+[[https://github.com/acate/saliency_maps|Github page for source code]]
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+... however, the algorithm actually works in "local" fashion based on small, often meaningless visual differences.
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