Method and system for improving the visual exploration of an image during a target search
AssigneeSr Labs S.R.L.
InventorPaolo Invernizzi
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Abstract
Object of the present invention are a method and a system for monitoring a user's attention distribution in the course of a digital image exploration, adapted to produce feedback that give the user himself an indication of the efficacy of the exploration performed, even on the basis of the relevance that the various zones of the image have in relation to a certain goal, relevance that can possibly be determined by an expert system responsible for examining the image as a function of the above-mentioned objective.
Claims15
A system for improving the analysis of digital images by a user comprising electronic data processing means, comprising data storage means, digital image display means and interface means, adapted to allow said electronic data processing means to collect data from a user, wherein said electronic data processing means are adapted to modify the display of said digital images during the exploration thereof by the user so as to add indicators adapted to mark the zones of said digital images deemed important and which have not yet been explored by the user with the necessary care.
A method for improving the analysis of digital images by a user comprising:
- displaying a digital image to a user on appropriate display means;
- acquiring the user's scanpath of said image by means of an eye-tracker device;
- acquiring point markers of said image made by said user;
- comparing the user's scanpath of said image and the points of said image marked by the user with data relating to the relevance index of the points of said image originating from a digital image analysis expert system;
- producing a first feedback adapted to update said data relating to the relevance index of the points of said image originating from a digital image analysis expert system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.