A study on the effect of camera motion on human visual attention

The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of camera motion in user generated video with respect to human visual attention. Having a more accurate human attention model is particularly useful in applications such as video summarization where the identification of visual importance is crucial to the quality of the results. Most models proposed thus far, have not considered camera motion as an independent factor in identifying visual saliency. In this study eye movement was recorded while subjects watched videos with different types of camera motion. The distribution of the fixation points indicated high correlation between the visual saliency and the type and direction of camera movement. The statistical tests confirmed that the results are statistically significant.