Exploring with a foveated robot eye system

Thierry Baron, Martin D. Levine, Yehezkel Yeshurun

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Abstract

Computer vision systems are becoming more and more anthropomorphic. In addition to taking an active vision approach, researchers are now investigating robot heads with biologically motivated space-variant sensors. We have designed such an exploring eye system for robot gaze control when observing an arbitrary scene. Our approach uses "retinal"images constructed from overlapping receptive fields that are mapped to form log-polar "cortical"images. We have implemented this system on a parallel SIMD machine using an efficient parallelization algorithm. In order to demonstrate our approach, we have formulated various types of attentional operators that are used to select interest points to drive the gaze control mechanism. We show that our system efficiently integrates images from space-variant snapshots in an arbitrary natural environment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages377-380
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)0818662751
DOIs
StatePublished - 1994
Event12th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Conference C: Signal Processing - Conference D: Parallel Computing, ICPR 1994 - Jerusalem, Israel
Duration: 9 Oct 199413 Oct 1994

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Volume3
ISSN (Print)1051-4651

Conference

Conference12th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Conference C: Signal Processing - Conference D: Parallel Computing, ICPR 1994
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityJerusalem
Period9/10/9413/10/94

Funding

FundersFunder number
French Lavoisier Foundation
US-Israel BSF
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada
Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide à la Recherche

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