Information-based gaze control adaptation to scene context for mobile robots

Goal-directed guidance of gaze control based on coordinated task and stimulus parameters is essential for steering a mobile cognitive system efficiently and autonomously through the real world. This paper focuses on coordination mechanisms of top-down and bottomup attentional allocation, with particular consideration of the current local environment. The top-down attention selection in the task-space and the bottom-up attention selection in the image-space is evaluated and combined using information theory. An information-based scene context classification considering scene dynamics is proposed to bias attention selection, which is the main contribution of this paper. Experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICPR
• Authors: Kolja Kühnlenz, Martin Buss, Tingting Xu
• Keywords: Bias Attention Selection, Bottom-up Attention Selection, Computer Vision, ICPR 2008, Top-down Attention Selection