We thank Borji, Sihite, and Itti (
2013) for the attention they give to our 2008 paper (Einhäuser, Spain, & Perona,
2008) and for reanalyzing our data with a variety of recent salience models. The question of what drives attention in natural scenes remains both important and fascinating. With respect to their analysis, we would like to make the following comments:
Hence, we consider the analysis by Borji et al. (
2013) interesting, as it brings a new aspect into the object-based versus feature-based debate. We assert, however, that a lot of experimental work and modeling on the object side is still needed to resolve this question. In the meantime, we will of course be happy to provide any interested reader with our data.