Capturing what human eyes perceive: A visual hierarchy generation approach to emulating saliency-based visual attention for grid-like urban street networks

Wenjie Zhen, Lin Yang, Mei-Po Kwan, Zejun Zuo, Bo Wan, Shunping Zhou, Shengwen Li, Yaqin Ye, Haoyue Qian, Xiaofang Pan

Abstract: Highlights•Hierarchies of grid-like streets is prone to cause visual cognitive confusion.•Using saliency-based visual attention greatly improves visual discrimination.•The proposed indicator help forming scaling of the city image in human minds.•The head/tail breaks scheme is advised to fit visual hierarchies of grid-like streets.