Title
Space-Variant Dynamic Neural Fields for Visual Attention
Abstract
In this paper we propose a new method for the fast application of dynamic neural fields (DNF) by utilizing the data reduction properties of space-variant active vision (SVAV). We apply this method to the control of visual attention. Dynamic neural fields have several advantages which are useful for many robot vision tasks, e.g. navigation or gaze-control. The dynamics of lateral interaction between neural units generates well-localized areas of high neural activation, which can be easily detected and used for behavior selection. The major focus of this paper is to drastically reduce the computational expense for the application of two-dimensional DNF. For that purpose, the dynamics of DNF is transformed into a space-variant field representation, defining a new type of DNF, namely space-variant dynamic neural fields (SVDNF). The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated for our integrated monocular space-variant vision system. This system uses SVAV for real-time fixation control, depth-from motion estimation and SVDNF for the control of visual attention.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1109/CVPR.1999.784650
CVPR
Keywords
Field
DocType
active vision,motion estimation,neural nets,robot vision,SVAV,active vision,dynamic neural fields,real-time fixation control,robot vision,visual attention
Structure from motion,Computer vision,Active vision,Pattern recognition,Machine vision,Computer science,Neural fields,Artificial intelligence,Motion estimation,Artificial neural network,Monocular,Data reduction
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
1
1063-6919
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.75
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ingo Ahrns1234.20
Heiko Neumann264493.84