runEcologicalSampling.m

clear all; close all; clc;
% runEcologicalSampling-  Top level script that runs a 
%                    Ecological Sampling (ES) experiment.
%                    The experiment consists in putting into action a
%                    defined number of 
%                    artificial observers, each generating a visual scanpath
%                    on a given
%                    video 
%                    All paremeters defining the experiment are
%                    defined in the config_<type of experiment>.m script
%                    file
%
% See also
%   esGenerateScanpath
%   config_<type of experiment>
%
% Requirements
%   Image Processing toolbox
%   Statistical toolbox

% References
%   [1] G. Boccignone and M. Ferraro, Ecological Sampling of Gaze Shifts
%       IEEE Trans. Systems Man Cybernetics - Part B (on line IEEExplore)
%
%   [2] G. Boccignone and M. Ferraro, The active sampling of gaze-shifts, 
%       in Image Analysis and Processing ICIAP 2011, 
%       ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 
%       G. Maino and G. Foresti, Eds.	Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2011, 
%       vol. 6978, pp. 187?196.
%
% Authors
%   Giuseppe Boccignone <Giuseppe.Boccignone(at)unimi.it>
%
% License
%   The program is free for non-commercial academic use. Please 
%   contact the authors if you are interested in using the software
%   for commercial purposes. The software must not modified or
%   re-distributed without prior permission of the authors.
%
% Changes
%   20/01/2012  First Edition
%


% Set here the total number of observers / scanpaths to be simulated
totObservers = 1;

% Set the configuration filename  (parameters) of the experiment
configFileName = 'config_demo';

for nObs=1:totObservers
    % Generate and visualize an ES scanpath
    %   Calling the overall routine esGenerateScanpath that does everything, with 
    %   a configuration file: the routine will run each subsection of the gaze shift 
    %   scheme in turn.
    esGenerateScanpath(configFileName,  nObs);
    
end