Title :
An active vision system for a location task using an inhomogeneously blurred image
Author :
Yagi, T. ; Asano, N. ; Gouhara, K. ; Uchikawa, Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Mech. Eng., Nagoya Univ., Japan
fDate :
27 Jun-2 Jul 1994
Abstract :
This paper describes a simple method to detect a location of each object using an inhomogeneously blurred image, and the implementation of the method to an active vision system in order to execute a location task. In the proposed method, which is based on our previous theoretical study on the early vision, a camera-taken image is processed with high resolution near the optical axis of the camera, and with low resolution in the periphery. Using such an inhomogeneously blurred image, the objects are classified by neural networks with respect to their location in view . This method is implemented to our proposed mobile camera as the active vision system. The experimental results show that every object in view is easily foveated one after another
Keywords :
active vision; computer vision; image segmentation; neural nets; object recognition; active vision system; image segmentation; inhomogeneously blurred image; neural networks; object location task; object recognition; Biomedical optical imaging; Brightness; Cameras; Computer vision; Image processing; Image resolution; Image segmentation; Machine vision; Object detection; Yagi-Uda antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks, 1994. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence., 1994 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1901-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICNN.1994.374964