Image model control of image processing

In the remote control of distant robots by a human operator, even if the robotic manipulator and/or mobility device has vision or other senses, problems arise involving control, communications, and display. The communication restrictions and especially severe bandwidth limitations suggest that transmitting large numbers of videocamera pictures frame by frame may not be the most expeditious means of providing display feedback to the human operator. A design is presented, suggested by the top-down scanpath theory of human vision, that provides for model control of image processing at the distant space-station site. Some early studies of image processing algorithms operating under model control are presented.<>