Biologicallymotivatedmodelforobjectdetectionand.docVIP

Biologically motivated model for object detection and identification in Real-world scenes Khurram Hameed (sis06kh@rdg.ac.uk), Atta Badii (tta.badii@rdg.ac.uk) IMSS, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading abstract The Classical computer vision methods can only weakly emulate some of the multi-level parallelisms in signal processing and information sharing that takes place in different parts of the primates’ visual system thus enabling it to accomplish many diverse functions of visual perception. One of the main functions of the primates’ vision is to detect and recognise objects in natural scenes despite all the linear and non-linear variations of the objects and their environment. The superior performance of the primates’ visual system compared to what machine vision systems have been able to achieve to-date, motivates scientists and researchers to further explore this area in pursuit of more efficient vision systems inspired by natural models. In this paper building blocks for a hierarchical efficient object recognition model are proposed. Incorporating the attention-based processing would lead to a system that will process the visual data in a non-linear way focusing only on the regions of interest and hence reducing the time to achieve real-time performance. Further, it is suggested to modify the visual cortex model for recognizing objects by adding non-linearities in the ventral path consistent with earlier discoveries as reported by researchers in the neuro-physiology of vision. Introduction Detection and identification of objects in real-world scenes is still an open topic of research in computer vision [1, 2, 3]. The currently available systems for object detection and identification are often limited to a single object recognition and are generally famous in literature as target oriented recognition techniques e.g template matching, MACH (Maximum Average Correlation Height) filters [4] etc. In these models to change the target or objects t