@InProceedings{, author = {Nick Hawes and Jeremy Wyatt}, title = {Towards Context-Sensitive Visual Attention}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Cognitive Vision Workshop (ICVW06)}, year = {2006}, address = {Graz, Austria}, month = {May}, url = {http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/bib-db/papers/haweswyatt06.pdf}, abstract = {In this paper we present a discussion of information processing context and how we believe a visual attention system should be influenced by contextual information. We support this argument with a proof-of-concept design and implementation of a context-sensitive extension to the Itti & Koch model of visual attention as part of an architecture for a cognitive system. Our model demonstrates improved performance in terms of both fixations and processing time on visual search tasks compared to the non-extended model.}, }