Time-to-collision estimation from motion based on primate visual processing

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1279-1291

  Galbraith, John M ^a   Kenyon, Garrett T ^a   Ziolkowski, Richard W ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous robotics; Computer vision; Depth cues; Motion processing; Neuromorphic computing; Optic flow; Time to collision

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOBILE ROBOTS; OPTICAL FLOWS; ROBOTICS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS; DEPTH CUES; MOTION PROCESSING; NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMIMETICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMIMETICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PRIMATES; ROBOTICS; VIDEO RECORDING; VISION;

EID: 24344467479     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2005.168     Document Type: Article

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