Eye Fixation Related Cognitive Activities for Detecting Targets in Remote Sensing Images

Abstract

Eye movements obtained during eye tracking include both the fixation location and cognitive activities of the subject when viewing the remote sensing images. Aiming at the problem that the existing region of interest analysis methods based on the eye movement do not determine whether the area contains targets or not, in this paper a method was presented to predict the targets in the regions of interest using cognitive activities from eye movement. The method realized the detection and location of targets in remote-sensing images through the combination of fixation location and cognitive activity in eye movements. Experiments showed that the cognitive activities related to fixations make significant contribution to target prediction in the remote sensing image with complex backgrounds.