NDLI: A Portable Bio-Inspired Architecture for Efficient Robotic Vergence Control

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Author	Gibaldi, Agosti Vanegas, Mauricio Canessa, Andrea Sabatini, Silvio P.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	In stereoscopic vision, the ability of perceiving the three-dimensional structure of the surrounding environment is subordinated to a precise and effective motor control for the binocular coordination of the eyes/cameras. If, on the one side, the binocular coordination of camera movements is a complicating factor, on the other side, a proper vergence control, acting on the binocular disparity, facilitates the binocular fusion and the subsequent stereoscopic perception process. In real-world situations, an effective vergence control requires further features other than real time capabilities: real robot systems are indeed characterized by mechanical and geometrical imprecision that affect the binocular vision, and the illumination conditions are changeable and unpredictable. Moreover, in order to allow an effective visual exploration of the peripersonal space, it is necessary to cope with different gaze directions and provide a large working space. The proposed control strategy resorts to a neuromimetic approach that provides a distributed representation of disparity information. The vergence posture is obtained by an open-loop and a closed-loop control, which directly interacts with saccadic control. Before saccade, the open-loop component is computed in correspondence of the saccade target region, to obtain a vergence correction to be applied simultaneously with the saccade. At fixation, the closed-loop component drives the binocular disparity to zero in a foveal region. The obtained vergence servos are able to actively drive both the horizontal and the vertical alignment of the optical axes on the object of interest, thus ensuring a correct vergence posture. Experimental tests were purposely designed to measure the performance of the control in the peripersonal space, and were performed on three different robot platforms. The results demonstrated that the proposed approach yields real-time and effective vergence camera movements on a visual stimulus in a wide working range, regardless of the illumination in the environment and the geometry of the system.
Starting Page	281
Ending Page	302
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09205691
Journal	International Journal of Computer Vision
Volume Number	121
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15731405
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-08-08
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Vergence control Active vision Stereo vision Binocular energy models Neuromorphic architectures Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Image Processing and Computer Vision Pattern Recognition
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software

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