Author: Cédric MeyerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The recognition of objects is a key challenge in increasing the autonomy of robots and their performances. Although many techniques of object recognition have been developed in the field of frame-based vision, none of them hold the comparison against human perception in terms of performance, weight and power consumption. Neuromorphic engineering models biological components into artificial chips. It recently provides an event-based camera inspired from a biological retina. The sparse, asynchronous, scene-driven visual data generated by these sensors allow the development of computationally efficient bio-inspired artificial vision. I focus in this thesis on studying how event-based acquisition and its accurate temporal precision can change object recognition by adding precise timing in the process. This thesis first introduces a frame-based object detection and recognition algorithm used for semantic mapping. It then studies quantitatively what are the advantages of using event-based acquisition using mutual information. It then inquires into low level event-based spatiotemporal features in the context of dynamic scene to introduce an implementation of a real-time multi-kernel feature tracking using Gabor filters or any kernel. Finally, a fully asynchronous time-oriented architecture of object recognition mimicking V1 visual cortex is presented. It extends the state of the art HMAX model in a pure temporal implementation of object recognition.
