Biologically-Inspired Vision Processing

Computational vision is the field of visual information processing [1, 2]. The main objectives of computer vision are to develop practical image understanding systems and to understand the mechanisms underlying human vision. Early vision is a set of visual modules which can extract such physical properties of the object under view as distance, orientation, reflectance, color, texture, and so on. Several obstacles have been circumvented and efficient algorithms have been developed in hardware implementation of the early vision system. Image acquisition and the spatio-temporal smoothing for noise removal can be performed in a silicon retina chip. The feature-extraction processing is the next step which emphasizes some important properties of the image such as the edge-detection and motion-detection processing.

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