Robust top-down and bottom-up visual saliency for mobile robots using bio-inspired design principles

Uziel Jaramillo-Avila,Jonathan M. Aitken,Kevin Gurney,Sean R. Anderson,Uziel Jaramillo-Avila,Jonathan M. Aitken,Kevin Gurney,Sean R. Anderson

Modern camera systems in robotics tend to pro-duce overwhelming amounts of visual information due to their high resolutions and high frame rates. This raises a fundamental question of how robots should focus attention on a region of the visual scene, and how they should process information in the periphery. This is particularly an issue for mobile robots, where the computational resources of low-p...