Development of a biologically inspired real-time visual attention system

Olivier Stasse, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Gordon Cheng

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present our attempt in creating a visual system for a humanoid robot, which can intervene in non-specific tasks in real-time. Due to the generic aspects of our goal, our models are based around human architecture. Such approaches have usually been contradictory, with the efficient implementation of real systems and its demanding computational cost. We show that by using PredN1, a system for developing distributed real-time robotic applications, we are able to build a real-time scalable visual attention system. It is easy to change the structure of the system, or the hardware in order to investigate new models. In our presentation, we will also present our system with a number of human visual attributes, such as: log-polar retino-cortical mapping, banks of oriented filters providing a generic signature of any object in an image. Additionally, a visual attention mechanism -a psychophysical model -FeatureGate, is used in eliciting a fixation point. The system runs at frame rate, allowing interaction of same time scale as humans.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsTomaso Poggio, Seong-Whan Lee, Heinrich H. Bulthoff
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages150-159
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3540675604, 9783540675600
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000
Externally publishedYes
Event1st IEEE International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision, BMCV 2000 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 15 May 200017 May 2000

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1811
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st IEEE International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision, BMCV 2000
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period15/05/0017/05/00

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