A fuzzy based system for target search using top-down visual attention

Top–down influences play a major role in the primate’s visual attention mechanism. Design of top-down influences for target search problems is the recommended approach to develop better computational models. Existing top down computational visual attention models mainly exploit three factors namely the context information, target information and task demands. Here in this paper we propose a Fuzzy based System for Target Search (FSTS) which makes use of target information as the top-down factor. The system uses Fuzzy logic to predict the salient locations in an image based on the prior information about a target object to be detected in a scene or frame. The performance of the system was analysed using multiple evaluation parameters and is found to have a better average hit number, number of first hits and elapsed CPU time than the existing system. The saliency map comparison is performed with human eye fixation map and is found to predict the human fixations with better accuracy than existing systems.