A Fixation Based Segmentation Framework

2010 Acknowledgments I would first like to thank my supervisors, Dr. Cheong Loong Fah and Dr. Ashraf Kassim, for all the support and guidance they provided over the five years of my PhD. I would also like to thank Dr. Stefan Winkler for his support as my supervisor for the period of 2006-2007. I have had tremendous opportunity to learn from all of my supervisors. I feel truly enriched both academically and professionally. During my PhD, I was lucky to get excellent opportunities to interact and work with many prominent researchers. While those were all exciting and stimulating people to work with, I am particularly grateful to Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos for sharing his knowledge and wisdom with me. He has been a true inspiration to me as a researcher and thinker. Finally, I express my deepest gratitude to my family, my parents, and my siblings for all of their emotional support during the long and strenuous journey of PhD. It was their constant and unwavering support that helped me plow ahead even when the odds were stacked against me. And for that, I say to them: Thank you!