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Color Saliency

Color is a fundamental component of visual attention. Saliency is usually associated with color contrasts. Besides this bottom-up perspective, some recent works indicate that psychological aspects should be considered too. However, relatively little research has been done on the potential impacts of color psychology on attention. To our best knowledge, a publicly available fixation dataset specialized in color features does not exist. We, therefore, conducted a novel eye-tracking experiment with color stimuli. We studied  fixations of 15 participants to find out whether color differences can reliably model color saliency or particular colors are preferably fixated regardless of scene content, i.e. color prior. … more