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sampling from the empirical saliency map (i.e., assuming a ‘perfect’ saliency model) does not replicate human behavior, since the overshoot to the opposite side of the image can- not be reproduced. Moreover, such a model is psychologically highly implausible because of the missing effect of degraded visual acuity towards the periphery of the visual field. However, an augmented model, i.e., a combination of the density map with a Gaussian attention window representing the fall-off of acuity to the periphery, performs even worse compared to random sampling from the empirical saliency map. We conclude from these results that an active mechanism driving the eyes away from the starting position is nec- 

