Building the what and where systems: multi-scale lines, edges and keypoints

Rodrigues, J. M. F.; Almeida, D.; Nunes, S.; Lam, Roberto; du Buf, J. M. H.

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/162

Use this identifier to reference this record.

Name:	Description:	Size:	Format:
RODBui.pdf		29.29 KB	Adobe PDF	Download

Send Feedback

Authors

Abstract(s)

Computer vision for realtime applications requires tremendous computational power because all images must be processed from the first to the last pixel. Ac tive vision by probing specific objects on the basis of already acquired context may lead to a significant reduction of processing. This idea is based on a few concepts from our visual cortex (Rensink, Visual Cogn. 7, 17-42, 2000): (1) our physical surround can be seen as memory, i.e. there is no need to construct detailed and complete maps, (2) the bandwidth of the what and where systems is limited, i.e. only one object can be probed at any time, and (3) bottom-up, low-level feature extraction is complemented by top-down hypothesis testing, i.e. there is a rapid convergence of activities in dendritic/axonal connections.