In the emerging paradigm of animate vision, the visual processes are not thought of as being independent of cognitive or motor processing, but as an integrated system within the context of visual behavior. Intimate coupling of sensory and motor systems have found to improve significantly the performance of behavior based vision systems. In order to study active vision systems one requires sensory-motor systems. Designing, building, and operating such a test bed is a challenging task. In this paper we describe the status of on-going work in developing a sensory-motor robotic system, R2H, with ten degrees of freedoms (DOF) for research in active vision. To complement the R2H system a Graphical Simulation and Animation (GSA) environment is also developed. The objective of building the GSA system is to create a comprehensive design tool to design and study the behavior of active systems and their interactions with the environment. GSA system aids the researchers to develop high performance and reliable software and hardware in a most effective manner. The GSA environment integrates sensing and motor actions and features complete kinematic simulation of the R2H system, it's sensors and it's workspace. With the aid of the GSA environment a Depth from Focus (DFF), Depth from Vergence, and Depth from Stereo modules are implemented and tested. The power and usefulness of the GSA system as a research tool is demonstrated by acquiring and analyzing images in the real and virtual worlds using the same software implemented and tested in the virtual world.This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under the DOE's University Program in Robotics for Advanced Reactors (Universities of Florida, Michigan, Tennessee, Texas, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory) under Contract No. DOE DE-FG02-86NE37968. 相似文献
Over the past 25 years, many ad hoc techniques for analyzing images have been developed and the subject has gradually begun to develop a scientific basis. This paper outlines the basic steps in a general image analysis process. It summarizes the state of the art with respect to each step, points out limitations of present methods and indicates potential directions for future work. 相似文献
Presents an obituary for Paul Kolers, psychologist and University of Toronto faculty member, who died of lung cancer on January 27, 1986. Kolers' early work was in vision research, and he maintained that interest throughout his career, although in his later writings he became progressively more concerned with the nature of symbolic representation and other semi-philosophical problems of mind. He contributed substantially to our knowledge of perceptual and cognitive processes, both through his trenchant analyses and critiques of current theories, and through his own imaginative experimental demonstrations and theoretical insights. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) 相似文献
This paper surveys research in developing computational models for integrating linguistic and visual information. It begins with a discussion of systems which have been actually implemented and continues with computationally motivated theories of human cognition. Since existing research spans several disciplines (e.g., natural language understanding, computer vision, knowledge representation), as well as several application areas, an important contribution of this paper is to categorize existing research based on inputs and objectives. Finally, some key issues related to integrating information from two such diverse sources are outlined and related to existing research. Throughout, the key issue addressed is the correspondence problem, namely how to associate visual events with words and vice versa. 相似文献
A pattern recognition system has been developed which is capable of recognizing high contrast two-dimensional visual patterns and which is insensitive to the translation, rotation and size of a pattern. The unique characteristics of the system are its speed, its low cost and the fact that it is completely self-contained.
A new technique for image recognition, suitable for applications such as industrial robotics, is presented. The technique provides invariance to rotation, translation and magnification of the image. An intelligent camera system is used to input an image, to center it, to normalize it with respect to size and to convert it into polar coordinate form. The image is then integrated over r and θ to provide two orthogonal profiles. The input profiles are compared to the reference images using a threshold comparison technique designed to provide a simple hardware implementation. Rotation of the image is handled by a one-dimensional shifting of the radial profile.
Seven experiments were performed to test the system. The results of these experiments are discussed and possible improvements to the system are suggested. 相似文献
"After more than a century of scientific research in color vision the trichromatic theory continues to face theoretical contradictions and unexplained facts. Trichromatic theories everywhere should rigorously examine the theory's basic assumptions, provide much more experimental data on the basic visual functions, and honestly ask themselves the question: should the theory be subject to drastic revision or should it be replaced by some other theory?" (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) 相似文献
The authors examined age-related differences in the detection of collision events. Older and younger observers were presented with displays simulating approaching objects that would either collide or pass by the observer. In 4 experiments, the authors found that older observers, as compared with younger observers, had less sensitivity in detecting collisions with an increase in speed, at shorter display durations, and with longer time-to-contact conditions. Older observers also had greater difficulty when the scenario simulated observer motion, suggesting that older observers have difficulty discriminating object motion expansion from background expansion from observer motion. The results of these studies support the expansion sensitivity hypothesis-that age-related decrements in detecting collision events involving moving objects are the result of a decreased sensitivity to recover expansion information. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) 相似文献