A focus of attention mechanism for gaze control within a framework for intelligent image analysis tools

Ranga P. Rodrigo; Kamal Ranaweera; Jagath K. Samarabandu

doi:10.1117/12.527092

28 May 2004 A focus of attention mechanism for gaze control within a framework for intelligent image analysis tools

Ranga P. Rodrigo, Kamal Ranaweera, Jagath K. Samarabandu

Proceedings Volume 5298, Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems III; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.527092
Event: Electronic Imaging 2004, 2004, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Focus of attention is often attributed to biological vision system where the entire field of view is first monitored and then the attention is focused to the object of interest. We propose using a similar approach for object recognition in a color image sequence. The intention is to locate an object based on a prior motive, concentrate on the detected object so that the imaging device can be guided toward it. We use the abilities of the intelligent image analysis framework developed in our laboratory to generate an algorithm dynamically to detect the particular type of object based on the user's object description. The proposed method uses color clustering along with segmentation. The segmented image with labeled regions is used to calculate the shape descriptor parameters. These and the color information are matched with the input description. Gaze is then controlled by issuing camera movement commands as appropriate. We present some preliminary results that demonstrate the success of this approach.

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Ranga P. Rodrigo, Kamal Ranaweera, and Jagath K. Samarabandu "A focus of attention mechanism for gaze control within a framework for intelligent image analysis tools", Proc. SPIE 5298, Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems III, (28 May 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.527092

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