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Attention Control for Robot Vision

Carl-Fredrik Westin, Carl-Johan Westelius, Hans Knutsson, Gösta H. Granlund
CVPR 1996 pp. 726-733
doi:10.1109/CVPR.1996.517153 /cvpr/1996/westin1996cvpr-attention/

Abstract

Focus of attention mechanisms for robot vision are discussed. A new method for neglecting low level filter responses from already modelled structures is presented. The method is based on a filtering technique termed normalized convolution. In one experiment, the robot is continuously moving its arm in the scene while tracking other objects. It is shown how the arm can be made "invisible" so that only the moving object of interest is detected. This makes tracking of objects much simpler. In another experiment, the attention of the system is shifted between objects by simply cancelling the mask of the object to be attended to. With this strategy the low level processes do not need to know the difference between a new object entering the scene and a mask being cancelled, and thus a complex communication structure between high and low levels is avoided.

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Westin et al. "Attention Control for Robot Vision." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1996. doi:10.1109/CVPR.1996.517153

Markdown

[Westin et al. "Attention Control for Robot Vision." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1996.](https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/1996/westin1996cvpr-attention/) doi:10.1109/CVPR.1996.517153

BibTeX

@inproceedings{westin1996cvpr-attention,
  title     = {{Attention Control for Robot Vision}},
  author    = {Westin, Carl-Fredrik and Westelius, Carl-Johan and Knutsson, Hans and Granlund, Gösta H.},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year      = {1996},
  pages     = {726-733},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPR.1996.517153},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/1996/westin1996cvpr-attention/}
}