Inter-Observer Visual Congruency in Video-Viewing

Jiaomin Yue, Qiang Lu, Dandan Zhu, Xiongkuo Min, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Guangtao Zhai

Abstract: There are individual differences in human visual attention between observers when viewing the same scene. Inter-observer visual congruency (IOVC) describes the dispersion between different people's visual attention areas when they observe the same stimulus. Research on the IOVC of video is interesting but lacking. In this paper, we first introduce the measurement to calculate the IOVC of video. And an eye-tracking experiment is conducted in a realistic movie-watching environment to establish a movie scene dataset. Then we propose a method to predict the IOVC of video, which employs a dual-channel network to extract and integrate content and optical flow features. The effectiveness of the proposed prediction model is validated on our dataset. And the correlation between inter-observer congruency and video emotion is analyzed.