ATTENTION MODELS FOR VERGENCE MOVEMENTS BASED ON THE JAMF FRAMEWORK AND THE POPEYE ROBOT

Niklas Wilming, Felix Wolfsteller, Peter König, Rui Caseiro, João Xavier, Helder Araújo

2009

Abstract

In this work we describe a novel setup for implementation and development of stereo vision attention models in a realistic embodied setting. We introduce a stereo vision robot head, called POPEYE, that provides degrees of freedom comparable to a human head. We describe the geometry of the robot as well as the characteristics that make it a good candidate for studying models of visual attention. Attentional robot control is implemented with JAMF, a graphical modeling framework which allows to easily implement current state-of-the-art saliency models. We give a brief overview over JAMF and show implementations of four exemplary attention models that can control the robot head.

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Wilming N., Wolfsteller F., König P., Caseiro R., Xavier J. and Araújo H. (2009). ATTENTION MODELS FOR VERGENCE MOVEMENTS BASED ON THE JAMF FRAMEWORK AND THE POPEYE ROBOT . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 429-437. DOI: 10.5220/0001782204290437


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@conference{visapp09,
author={Niklas Wilming and Felix Wolfsteller and Peter König and Rui Caseiro and João Xavier and Helder Araújo},
title={ATTENTION MODELS FOR VERGENCE MOVEMENTS BASED ON THE JAMF FRAMEWORK AND THE POPEYE ROBOT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={429-437},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001782204290437},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - ATTENTION MODELS FOR VERGENCE MOVEMENTS BASED ON THE JAMF FRAMEWORK AND THE POPEYE ROBOT
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Wilming N.
AU - Wolfsteller F.
AU - König P.
AU - Caseiro R.
AU - Xavier J.
AU - Araújo H.
PY - 2009
SP - 429
EP - 437
DO - 10.5220/0001782204290437