TY - JOUR T1 - Mesh saliency and human eye fixations JF - ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP) Y1 - 2010 A1 - Kim,Youngmin A1 - Varshney, Amitabh A1 - Jacobs, David W. A1 - Guimbretière,François KW - eye-tracker KW - mesh saliency KW - Visual perception AB - Mesh saliency has been proposed as a computational model of perceptual importance for meshes, and it has been used in graphics for abstraction, simplification, segmentation, illumination, rendering, and illustration. Even though this technique is inspired by models of low-level human vision, it has not yet been validated with respect to human performance. Here, we present a user study that compares the previous mesh saliency approaches with human eye movements. To quantify the correlation between mesh saliency and fixation locations for 3D rendered images, we introduce the normalized chance-adjusted saliency by improving the previous chance-adjusted saliency measure. Our results show that the current computational model of mesh saliency can model human eye movements significantly better than a purely random model or a curvature-based model. VL - 7 SN - 1544-3558 UR - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1670671.1670676 CP - 2 M3 - 10.1145/1670671.1670676 ER -