Online learning and object recognition for AUV optical vision

Optical vision is very important for an AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle) to navigate, avoid obstacles and operate autonomously. A neural network for online learning and recognition is presented in the paper. The major attribute that distinguishes this ANN from others is its analysis speed. Another very important feature is the ability to dynamically change the “knowledge base”. Additionally, the ANN can cope with missing values in the data. The ANN is applied to AUV optical vision. An experiment shows that the ANN performs very well