Patent ID: 8811753

Claim:
A computer system comprising: a visual attention module operative to: (a) receive a scene; (b) apply a visual attention model to the scene; and, (c) predict regions within the scene that tend to attract visual attention; and, a robustness assessment module operative to receive a set of allowable changes to at least some of the predicted regions, wherein the robustness assessment module is further operative to introduce variability into the visual attention model that is applied by the visual attention module, then interact with the visual attention module to evaluate the scene and the set of allowable changes to at least some of the predicted regions within the scene, and wherein the robustness assessment module is further operative to determine a robustness of at least one of the predicted regions or of the scene, wherein robustness is the degree to which the visual attention predicted by the visual attention module varies with the allowable changes or the introduced variability.