Cooperative Aspects of Selective Attention

This paper investigates the cooperative aspects of selective attention in which primary (or bottom-up) information is dynamically integrated by the secondary (top-down or context) information from different channels, and in which the secondary information provides a criterion of what should be many target candidates We present a computational model of selective attention that implements these cooperative behaviors. Simulation results, obtained using still and video images, are presented showing the interesting properties of the model that are not captured by only competitive aspects of selective attention.