How to ruin the art experience by modeling one's eye-movements
Nils Grimbeck (Chalmers University of Technology, University of Gothenburg)
| Thu Nov 12, 15:30-16:00 (6 weeks from now) | |
| Lecture held in MVL14. |
Abstract: For over a hundred years, researchers have tracked where people look when they view art, hoping to learn something about how we perceive, judge, and think about what we see. This talk takes that idea and, in the name of science, sucks a little bit of the mystery out of it: we present a statistical model that predicts your eye movements as you look at a painting for the first time.
We trained and tested this model on real eye-tracking data: twenty people looking at six very different paintings. The result is a model that can reasonably imitate how a person's gaze wanders across a piece of art in the first crucial 30 seconds, which is either a neat contribution to the science of visual attention, or a way to slightly ruin art forever by reducing it to a stochastic process and making you uncomfortably conscious of how you eyes move. You be the judge.
Mathematics
Audience: general audience
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