Visual Attention in Omnidirectional Video for Virtual Reality Applications

We are sharing our developed test-bed and captured user data that we hope will enable in creating more immersive virtual reality experiences. This repository is for open source codes and materials for the QoMEX 2018 paper: Visual Attention in omnidirectional video (ODV) for virtual reality (VR) Applications

Abstract

Understanding of visual attention is crucial for ODV viewed for instance with a head-mounted display (HMD), where only a fraction of an ODV is rendered at a time. Transmission and rendering of ODV can be optimized by understanding how viewers consume a given ODV in VR applications. In order to predict video regions that might draw the attention of viewers, saliency maps can be estimated by using computational visual attention models. As no such model currently exists for ODV, but given the importance for emerging ODV applications, we create a new visual attention user dataset for ODV, investigate behavior of viewers when consuming the content, and analyze the prediction performance of state-of-the-art visual attention models. Our developed test-bed and dataset will be publicly available with this paper, to stimulate and support research on ODV.

Test-bed

Results

Citation

Paper accepted in 10th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2018) 

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Please cite our paper in your publications if it helps your research:

@inproceedings{Ozcinar2018,
title = {Visual Attention in Omnidirectional Video for Virtual Reality Applications},
author = {Cagri Ozcinar and Aljosa Smolic},
year = {2018},
booktitle = {10th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2018)}
}

Authors

| Cagri Ozcinar | Aljosa Smolic |

Acknowledgement

This publication has emanated from research conducted with the financial support of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under the Grant Number 15/RP/2776. We gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation for the donation of GPUs used in this work.