Title :
Neuromorphic implementation of active gaze and vergence control
Author :
Tsang, Eric K C ; Lam, Stanley Y M ; Meng, Yicong ; Shi, Bertram E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hong Kong
Abstract :
We present an active stereo system with gaze and vergence control driven by model of the disparity selective neurons in the mammalian visual cortex. The hardware consists of a mobile stereo camera and three Multimap boards. The Multi- map boards compute multiple cortical maps responding to target locations, orientations and disparities, and generate movement commands to track target in space. Each board can compute more than 10 cortical maps at 320*240 pixel resolution and 25 frames per second, and consumes 3.5 W.
Keywords :
active vision; image resolution; neural chips; stereo image processing; active gaze; active stereo system; disparity selective neurons; gaze control; mammalian visual cortex; mobile stereo camera; multimap boards; multiple cortical maps; neuromorphic implementation; pixel resolution; vergence control; Brain modeling; Cameras; Eyes; Hardware; Head; Neuromorphics; Neurons; Signal generators; Stereo vision; Target tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2008. ISCAS 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1683-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1684-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2008.4541608
