Smooth foveal vision with Gaussian receptive fields

9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 223-229

  Pamplona, Daniela ^a   Bernardino, Alexandre ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TRACKING; ALGEBRAIC APPROACHES; AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CARTESIANS; CLASSICAL APPROACH; CLASSICAL METHODS; FILTERING OPERATIONS; FOVEAL VISION; FOVEATION; GAUSSIAN KERNELS; GAUSSIANS; GEOMETRICAL TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN BRAIN; HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN VISION; IMAGE DATA; LINEAR PROCESSING; MATRIX COMPUTATION; NON-SMOOTH; OPERATOR THEORY; REAL TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; VERGENCES; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SIGNALS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 77950578769     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICHR.2009.5379575     Document Type: Conference Paper

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