Title :
Image information content assessment and elicitation
Author :
Diamant, Emanuel
Author_Institution :
VIDIA-mant, Kiriat Ono, Israel
Abstract :
Despite impressive progress in computer technologies, evolutionary shaped biological visual systems continue to be superior over human-made (computer-based) systems. One of the reasons for that is the striking dissimilarity in low-level image processing paradigms that the two systems sustain. While biological systems are busy with information processing, (from the very beginning, from the input front-end), their computer-based analogs are occupied with data processing, - endless and tireless number crunching. It is widely believed, that mimicking properties of biological visual systems in design of their computer-based counterparts will greatly improve the performances of the latter. Although convincing evidences of such ventures are still, let us say, not widely known, this mock-up approach is exactly what we had attempted to carry out, and what we would like to explain in this paper.
Keywords :
biomimetics; computer vision; biological visual system; computer-based visual system; data processing; information processing; low-level image processing; Biological information theory; Biological systems; Biology computing; Image processing; Modems; Photoreceptors; Power engineering and energy; Retina; Systems engineering and theory; Visual system;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, 2002. The 22nd Convention of
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7693-5
DOI :
10.1109/EEEI.2002.1178325