A robotic eye controller based on cooperative neural agents

Author

Chang, Oscar ; Campoy, Pascual ; Martinez, Carol ; Olivares-Mendez, Miguel A.

Author_Institution

Comput. Vision Group, Univ. Politec. de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

18-23 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A neural behavior initiating agent (BIA) is proposed to integrate relevant compressed image information coming from others cooperating and specialized neural agents. Using this arrangement the problem of tracking and recognizing a moving icon has been solved by partitioning it into three simpler and separated tasks. Neural modules associated to those tasks proved to be easier to train and show a good general performance. The obtained neural controller can handle spurious images and solve an acute image related task in a dynamical environment. Under prolonged dead-lock conditions the controller shows traces of genuine spontaneity. The overall performance has been tested using a pan and tilt camera platform and real images taken from several objects, showing the good tracking results discussed in the paper.

Keywords

data compression; image coding; neurocontrollers; robot vision; computer vision; cooperative neural agent; image compression; neural behavior initiating agent; neural controller; robotic eye controller; Artificial neural networks; Image coding; Image recognition; Neurons; Retina; Robots; Tracking; Computer vision; agents cooperation; behavior initiators; genuine spontaneity; neural agents; neural networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Neural Networks (IJCNN), The 2010 International Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

1098-7576

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6916-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596985

Filename

5596985