Study on eye movements in subjective evaluation of displayed pictures

Abstract

Eye movement was measured when food and wear pictures that consisted of four items with different positions were subjectively evaluated by seven-grade scale (like - dislike), and the relationship between the subjective evaluation and feature parameters obtained from eye fixation and scanpath was investigated. In results, a significant relationship between the saliency of pictures obtained by GBVS and the normalized total fixation time was not observed. And the eye movement at the initial state might be similar, independent of the saliency of items in the pictures. The fixation time to the item of the negative 'dislike' evaluation became relatively longer, when the evaluation was negative irrespective of the experimental condition. These feature parameters would be useful for quantifying the evaluation of the pictures.