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Rutgers computer scientists Doug DeCarlo and Anthony Santella have introduced a new approach for transforming digital photographs into simplified, nonphotorealistic renderings. The technique entails tracking a person's eye movements as he or she observes a photo, and using the eye-tracking data in conjunction with models of human visual perception to predict which regions of the image the observer finds most important. By highlighting key areas and ...