An experiment with saccadic eye movement simulation

Since human visual system surpasses any present artificial system in visual information processing, it is reasonable to investigate its properties. We explored and simulated saccade, biological mechanism used to get the most informative scene region into the central part of retina for high-level detail processing. The paper describes our implementation of saccade simulation system and discusses its applicability in image comparison and retrieval (query-by-example method) by examining properties of generated artificial eye-movement trajectories.