Laurent Itti

2014
Borji, A., and L. Itti, "Defending Yarbus: Eye movements reveal observers' task", Journal of vision, vol. 14, pp. 29, 2014. PDF icon jov14.Borji_.Itti_.printed.pdf (3.46 MB)
Borji, A., and L. Itti, "Human vs. Computer in Scene and Object Recognition", The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June, 2014. PDF icon cvpr2014.Borji_.Itti_.final_.pdf (7.68 MB)
Borji, A., and L. Itti, "Optimal attentional modulation of neural population", Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, vol. 8, 2014. PDF icon fcn14.Borji_.Itti_.printed.pdf (3 MB)
2013
Borji, A., H. R. Tavakoli, D. N. Sihite, and L. Itti, "Analysis of Scores, Datasets, and Models in Visual Saliency Prediction", Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, Dec, 2013.
Borji, A., and L. Itti, "Bayesian optimization explains human active search", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2013. PDF icon nips2013.Borji_.Itti_.final_.pdf (2.53 MB)
Chang, C. K., C. C. Siagian, and L. Itti, "Beobot 2.0: Autonomous Mobile Robot Localization and Navigation in Outdoor Pedestrian Environment", Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Video Track, Nov, 2013. PDF icon iros2013.Chang_.Siagian.Itti_.final_.pdf (264.39 KB)
Itti, L., and A. Borji, "Computational models: Bottom-up and top-down aspects", The Oxford Handbook of Attention, pp. 1-20, 2013.
Tseng, P-H., A. Paolozza, DP.. Munoz, JN.. Reynolds, and L. Itti, "Deep Learning on Natural Viewing Behaviors to Differentiate Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder", Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2013, vol. 8206: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 178-185, 2013. PDF icon ideal2013.Tseng_.Paolozza.etal_.final_.pdf (311.88 KB)
Grant, W. S., R. C. Voorhies, and L. Itti, "Finding planes in LiDAR point clouds for real-time registration", Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, Nov, 2013. PDF icon iros2013.Grant_.Voorhies.Itti_.final_.pdf (1.57 MB)
Siagian, C. C., C. K. Chang, and L. Itti, "Mobile Robot Navigation System in Outdoor Pedestrian Environment Using Vision-Based Road Recognition", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 2013. PDF icon icra2013.Siagian.Chang_.Itti_.printed.pdf (2.22 MB)
Borji, A., D. N. Sihite, and L. Itti, "Objects do not predict fixations better than early saliency: a re-analysis of Einhauser et al.'s data.", J Vis, vol. 13, issue 10, pp. 18, 2013. PDF icon jv13.Borji_.Dicky_.Sihite.Itti_.printed.pdf (445.09 KB)
Borji, A., D. N. Sihite, and L. Itti, "Quantitative analysis of human-model agreement in visual saliency modeling: A comparative study", Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 22, pp. 55–69, 2013.
Noori, N., and L. Itti, "Schema-driven, space-supported random accessible memory systems for manipulation of symbolic working memory", Proc. 35th annual conference of the cognitive science society, Aug, 2013. PDF icon cogsci2013b.Noori_.Itti_.final_.pdf (145 KB)
Windau, J., and L. Itti, "Situation awareness via sensor-equipped eyeglasses", Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, Nov, 2013. PDF icon iros2013.Windau.Itti_.final_.pdf (877.01 KB)
Noori, N., and L. Itti, "Traces of intellectual working memory tasks on visual-spatial short-term memory", Proc. 35th annual conference of the cognitive science society, Aug, 2013. PDF icon cogsci2013a.Noori_.Itti_.final_.pdf (145.02 KB)
Borji, A., D. N. Sihite, and L. Itti, "What stands out in a scene? A study of human explicit saliency judgment", Vision research, vol. 91, pp. 62–77, 2013. PDF icon vr13.Borji_.Dicky_.Sihite.Itti_.printed.pdf (2.73 MB)
Borji, A., D. N. Sihite, and L. Itti, "Where to look next? Modeling Top-down Visual Attention in Complex Interactive Environments", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A, vol. 44, issue 5, pp. 15, 05/2014, 2013.
Noori, N., and L. Itti, "Where what you count is what really counts", Proc. 35th annual conference of the cognitive science society, Aug, 2013. PDF icon cogsci2013c.Noori_.Itti_.final_.pdf (126.75 KB)
2012
Borji, A., and L. Itti, "Exploiting local and global patch rarities for saliency detection", CVPR, 2012. PDF icon cvpr2012c.Borji_.Itti_.printed.pdf (1.03 MB)
Marat, S., and L. Itti, "Influence of the Amount of Context Learned for Improving Object Classification when Simultaneously Learning Object and Contextual Cues", Visual Cognition, vol. 20, pp. 580-602, Apr, 2012. PDF icon vc12.Marat_.Itti_.printed.pdf (445.73 KB)
Borji, A., D. N. Sihite, and L. Itti, "Modeling the Influence of Action on Spatial Attention in Visual Interactive Environments", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 2012. PDF icon book12.Borji_.Sihite.Itti_.submitted.pdf (2.62 MB)
Borji, A., D. N. Sihite, and L. Itti, "Modeling the influence of action on spatial attention in visual interactive environments", ICRA, 2012. PDF icon icra2012.Borji_.Sihite.Itti_.printed.pdf (1.23 MB)
Borji, A., D. N. Sihite, and L. Itti, "An Object-based Bayesian Framework for Top-down Visual Attention", Proc. Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), Toronto, Canada, Aug, 2012. PDF icon aaai2011.Borji_.Sihite.Itti_.final_.pdf (6.27 MB)
Borji, A., D. N. Sihite, and L. Itti, "Probabilistic learning of task-specific visual attention", CVPR, 2012. PDF icon cvpr2012d.Borji_.Itti_.printed.pdf (440.55 KB)
Borji, A., D. N. Sihite, and L. Itti, "Quantitative Analysis of Human-Model Agreement in Visual Saliency Modeling: A Comparative Study", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, pp. 1-16 (in press), 2012.
Borji, A., D. N. Sihite, and L. Itti, "Salient Object Detection: A Benchmark", ECCV (2), 2012. PDF icon eccv2012.Borji_.Sihite.Itti_.accepted.pdf (2.67 MB)
Borji, A., and L. Itti, "State-of-the-art in Visual Attention Modeling", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2012.
Shen, J., and L. Itti, "Top-down Influences on Visual Attention during Listening are Modulated by Observer Sex", Vision Research, vol. 65, pp. 62-76, Jul, 2012. PDF icon vr12.Shen_.Itti_.printed.pdf (2.84 MB)
2011
Borji, A., D. N. Sihite, and L. Itti, "Computational Modeling of Top-down Visual Attention in Interactive Environments", Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2011), Sep, 2011. PDF icon bmvc2011.Borji_.Sihite.Itti_.final_.pdf (2.58 MB)
Chang, C-K., C. Siagian, and L. Itti, "Mobile robot vision navigation & localization using Gist and Saliency", IROS, 2011. PDF icon iros2011.Chang_.Siagian.Itti_.final_.pdf (1.48 MB)
 

Dynamics and Control Systems Lab

 

Robotic Mobility Group

 

Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory

About us

We are three research groups from Georgia Tech, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Southern California, collaborating to perform basic research on high-speed autonomous driving.  We are most interested in researching biologically-inspired methods in the realms of both perception and control.

Acknowledgment

This work was supported by the Army Research Office under MURI Award W911NF-11-1-0046.