Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal and Conference Papers
- Saeed Ghorbani, Calden Wloka, Ali Etemad, Marcus A. Brubaker, and Nikolaus F. Troje (2020) Probabilistic Character Motion Synthesis Using a Hierarchical Deep Latent Variable Model. Computer Graphics Forum Paper Link; Video Abstract; SCA 2020 Talk
- John K. Tsotsos, Iuliia Kotseruba, and Calden Wloka (2019) Rapid visual categorization is not guided by early salience-based selection. PLOS ONE 14(10):1-23 Paper link
- Iuliia Kotseruba, Calden Wloka, Amir Rasouli, and John K. Tsotsos (2019) Do Saliency Models Detect Odd-One-Out Targets? New Datasets and Evaluations. Proc. of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) - Oral Presentation PDF Dataset
- Calden Wloka, Iuliia Kotseruba, and John K. Tsotsos (2018) Active Fixation Control to Predict Saccade Sequences. Proc. of Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) PDF
- Calden Wloka and John K. Tsotsos (2016) Spatially Binned ROC: A Comprehensive Saliency Metric. Proc. of Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Link
- John K. Tsotsos, Iuliia Kotseruba, and Calden Wloka (2016) A Focus on Selection for Fixation. Journal of Eye Movement Research 9(5):2,1-34 Link
- Neil D.B. Bruce, Calden Wloka, Nick Frosst, Shafin Rahman, and John Tsotsos (2015) On computational modeling of visual saliency: Examining what’s right, and what’s left. Vision Research 116:95-112 Link
Preprints and Technical Reports
- Joshua Abraham and Calden Wloka (2021) Edge Detection for Satellite Images without Deep Networks arXiv paper
- Calden Wloka and John K. Tsotsos (2020) An Empirical Method to Quantify the Peripheral Performance Degredation in Deep Networks arXiv paper
- Calden Wloka, Toni Kunić, Iuliia Kotseruba, Ramin Fahimi, Nicholas Frosst, Neil D. B. Bruce, and John K. Tsotsos (2018) SMILER: Saliency Model Implementation Library for Experimental Research. arXiv paper GitHub repository
Invited Talks
- Calden Wloka. "Modelling Fixations Beyond a Static Saliency Map." Conference on Robots and Vision CIPPRS Award Talk, Burnaby BC, Canada, May 2021
- Calden Wloka. "Some Salient Issues with Saliency Models." A.I. Socratic Circles (AISC), Toronto ON, Canada, October 2020
Recorded talk - Calden Wloka. "Putting Computational Saliency in Context." Facebook Reality Labs, Redmond WA, USA, January 2020
- Calden Wloka. "An Overview of Computational Saliency."Centre for Neuroscience Studies Seminar Series Queen's University, Kingston ON, Canada, September 2014
Conference Abstracts
- Calden Wloka, Toni Kunic, Iuliia Kotseruba, and John K. Tsotsos (2019) SMILER: An Easy and Consistent Way to Compute Saliency Maps International Conference on Predictive Vision (ICPV)
Winner of Best Computer Vision Poster Award - Calden Wloka and John K. Tsotsos (2019) Flipped on its Head: deep learning-based saliency finds asymmetry in the opposite direction expected for singleton search of flipped and canonical targets Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Poster PDF
- Toni Kunic, Calden Wloka, and John K. Tsotsos (2019) SMILER: Consistent and Usable Saliency Model Implementations Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS) Abstract
- Jessica D'eon, Sarah C. Kavassalis, Calden Wloka, and John K. Tsotsos (2018) Insights from Computer Vision to Improve Student Data Visualization Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition
- Calden Wloka, Sang-Ah Yoo, Rakesh Sengupta, and John Tsotsos (2017) The Interaction of Target-Distractor Similarity and Visual Search Efficiency for Basic Features. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Poster PDF
- R. Sengupta, J.K. Tsotsos, S-A. Yoo, C. Wloka, and T. Kunic (2016) Beyond slots and resources: an integrative approach to visual working memory. Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
- J.K. Tsotsos, Y. Kotseruba, and C. Wloka (2016) A cluster of conspicuity representations for eye fixation selection. Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
- Calden Wloka, Sang-Ah Yoo, Rakesh Sengupta, Toni Kunić, and John Tsotsos (2016) Psychophysical Evaluation of Saliency Algorithms. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Poster PDF
- John K. Tsotsos, Calden Wloka, and Yulia Kotseruba (2016) Focusing on Selection for Fixation. Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS) Abstract
- Nick Frosst, Calden Wloka, and John Tsotsos (2014) The Effects of Image Padding in Saliency Algorithms. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) Abstract
- Calden Wloka, Neil Bruce, and John Tsotsos (2014) Boundary Effects Across Filter Spatial Scales. Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS) Abstract
- Calden Wloka, Nick Frosst, and John Tsotsos (2014) Salience Across Spatial Scales. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Abstract Poster PDF
- Calden Wloka and John Tsotsos (2013) Overt Fixations Reflect a Natural Central Bias. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Abstract Poster PDF
Theses
- Calden Wloka (2019) An Evaluation of Saliency and Its Limits. Doctoral Dissertation, York University
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Winner of the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society John Barron Doctoral Dissertation Award - Calden Wloka (2012) Integrating Overt and Covert Attention Using Peripheral and Central Processing Streams. Masters Thesis, York University
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Winner of the Joseph Liu Best Thesis Award and York University Thesis Award
Reviewing
I have provided peer review for the following journals and conferences:
- Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
- Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference (CogSci), 2020
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020
- IEEE and PAMI-TC Workshop on Applications in Computer Vision (WACV), 2018-2020
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017, 2019
- British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2019
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2018
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2018, 2020
- IET Computer Vision, 2017
- Image and Vision Computing, 2016
- Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2016
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2013, 2014
- The Visual Computer, 2014
- Journal of Vision, 2014, 2017-2018