To detect presence of oil in the underground, geologists need to analyse seismic images.
Geologists have to analyse a large volume of seismic data in a short time.
We study human visual perception during scanning of seismic images in order to help specialists to perform some of their tasks faster. We compare the visual behaviour of experts with that of less-skilled geologists. We are also interested in image regions that attract the gaze of the geologists. The best-fitting image attribute in our case is the texture feature. This attribute codes both the energy and the geometry of the structure.