Graze-centric image analysis for efficient visual search

Abstract

Despite recent advances in computer vision, pattern recognition, and image processing, many visual tasks remain unsolved. Consider, for example, visual search – the problem of finding a target in a background of distracters. Whenever we look for a familiar face in an audience, or search for a misplaced item, we engage in visual search. Given the infinite variations of a target’s features (size, orientation, color), and background conditions (lighting, occlusion), it is a marvel that humans excel at searching and distinguishing objects.