Patent Document ID: 8396282
Application ID: 12262548
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer program product for computing a fused saliency map derived from visual and auditory sensors, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer program instructions stored therein for causing at least one computer to perform operations of: computing a first saliency map from data generated by visual sensors; computing a second saliency map in frequency versus time coordinates from data generated by auditory sensors; localizing one or more salient peaks in the second saliency map in azimuth and elevation; constructing an auditory saliency map in azimuth-elevation coordinates by assigning the largest auditory sensor signal for each salient peak in the second saliency map to a weighted distribution centered at the previously localized azimuth and elevation with a standard deviation; fusing the first and auditory saliency maps as a weighted combination of each, into a fused saliency map, then normalizing the fused saliency map.