Detecting distortions of peripherally presented letter stimuli under crowded conditions

Detecting distortions of peripherally presented letter stimuli under crowded conditions.

When visual features in the periphery are close together they become difficult to recognize: something is present but it is unclear what. This is called "crowding". Here we investigated sensitivity to features in highly familiar shapes (letters) by applying spatial distortions. In Experiment 1, observers detected which of four peripherally presented (8 deg of retinal eccentricity) target letter...

Ants under crowded conditions consume more energy.

Social insects live in colonies consisting of many workers, where worker interactions play an important role in regulating colony activities. Workers interact within the social space of the nest; therefore, constraints on nest space may alter worker behaviour and affect colony activities and energetics. Here we show in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus that changes in nest space have a significant ...

Analytical and Numerical Investigation of Ant Behavior under Crowded Conditions

Swarm intelligence is widely recognized as a powerful paradigm of self-organized optimization, with numerous examples of successful applications in distributed artificial intelligence. However, the role of physical interactions in the organization of traffic flows in ants under crowded conditions has only studied very recently. The related results suggest new ways of congestion control and simp...

Optimal Traffic Organisation in Ants under Crowded 1 Conditions

Detecting Abnormal Behaviors in Crowded Scenes

Situational awareness is a basic function of the human visual system, which is attracting a lot of research attention in machine vision and related research communities. There is an increasing demand for smarter video surveillance of public and private space using intelligent vision systems which can distinguish what is semantically meaningful to the human observer as ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ be...