Relation between Computer and Human Vision
Edwige Pissaloux
Professor, IEEE France Section General Secretary
Laboratoire de Robotique de Paris
University of Paris 6, France
Abstract:
The vision biological systems prove their efficiency for environment interactions. This explains why designers of artificial vision systems try to imitate them and integrate their principles in new cameras, in new vision systems. But, as T. Poggio says, the vision is a key to human intelligence, ie. to understand the vision means understand the human brain, thus understand many processes such as perception, object recognition, adaptation and learning.
In its first part, this talk will address some basis of human vision perception of the 3D world : brain and biosensors’ cooperation in depth perception via cognitive maps. In the second part, the discovered so far brain principles’ integration into a navigation tool for visually impaired and blind people, and named Intelligent Glasses, will be presented. This latter is a joint research project under design in France at the Robotics Laboratory of Paris 6 University in conjunction with Collège de France and the CEA, National Nuclear Testing Commission.
Keywords:
human visual perception, depth
perception, cognitive map, navigation tool for visually impaired