Log-polar mapping template design: From task-level requirements to geometry parameters

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1354-1370

  Traver, V Javier ^a   Pla, Filiberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Design criteria; Genetic algorithm; Log polar vision; Receptive fields

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SET THEORY; SPECIFICATIONS;

DEEP KNOWLEDGE; DESIGN CRITERIA; DESIGN CRITERION; END USERS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GEOMETRIC PARAMETERS; GEOMETRY PARAMETERS; INTERMEDIATE LAYERS; LOG-POLAR MAPPING; LOG-POLAR VISION; MULTI-OBJECTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHM; POLAR SPACES; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; SENSOR DESIGNS; SENSOR PARAMETERS; TASK SPECIFICATIONS; TEMPLATE DESIGNS; VISION MODELLING; VISUAL SENSORS; VISUAL TASKS;

SENSORS;

EID: 49549105566     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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