Machine Visual Targeting Modeled on Biological Reflexes

Abstract

The report presents a simple algorithm for machine visual target detection and localization based on aspects of the known functional neuroanatomy of biological systems. The system can generate, from the relative motion of a target image on the sensor surface, a series of motor commands that reorient the high-resolution portion of the sensor surface to regions of the target that potentially contain the most information. The reorientations are analogous to saccadic eye movements of biological visual systems. Motion analysis, Scan paths, Saccadic eye movements, Superior collicus, Scale invariance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA264406

Entities

People

  • M. R. Blackburn

Organizations

  • Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Brain
  • Cells
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Eye
  • Eye Movements
  • High Resolution
  • Ocean Surveillance
  • Relative Motion
  • Systems Biology
  • Target Detection
  • Targeting
  • Targets
  • Visual Targets

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Neuroscience
  • Robotics and Automation.