An information-theoretic approach to active vision

An approach to active vision based on information theory and statistical mechanics is presented. Density of entropy production measured along a spatio-chromatic diffusion of a colour image is used to build a conspicuity map of the image. The map is successively given as input to a dynamic neural network in order to drive a focus-of-attention scanpath.

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