Eye movements during free viewing to maximize scene understanding
Shravan Murlidaran, Miguel P Eckstein · 2025
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Shravan Murlidaran and Miguel Eckstein study where eyes go when people look freely at a scene in this 2025 paper. What people do in that free state is not well known. The team tracked eye moves under varied tasks, using image pairs where a small change flips what a scene means.
Free viewing looked most like the pattern of people who describe a scene. Eyes went more often to people and objects whose loss would change the scene's meaning. Small changes that flipped meaning changed eye patterns, while changes to mere eye-catching spots did not. Forced looks at off-topic objects hurt scene grasp. Free eye moves, they argue, serve scene understanding.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shravan Murlidaran, Miguel P Eckstein |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 91 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |