Insect motion vision

Adaptive Motion Detectors Inspired By Insect Vision

Introduction Inventions such as miniature unmanned aerial vehicles would extend our capabilities in a variety of areas and are a major focus of active research. Before their promise can be reached, however, significant challenges in guidance and control, flight mechanisms, and energy storage must be overcome. Engineers and scientists are turning to animals, particularly insects, for inspiration...

Robot Motion Vision Part II: Implementation

The idea of Fixation introduced a direct method for general recovery of shape and motion from images without using either feature correspondence or optical flow [1,2]. There are some parameters which have important effects on the performance of fixation method. However, the theory of fixation does not say anything about the autonomous and correct choice of those parameters. This paper presents ...

Robot Motion Vision Pait I: Theory

A direct method called fixation is introduced for solving the general motion vision problem, arbitrary motion relative to an arbitrary environment. This method results in a linear constraint equation which explicitly expresses the rotational velocity in terms of the translational velocity. The combination of this constraint equation with the Brightness-Change Constraint Equation solves the gene...

Drosophila's View on Insect Vision

Within the last 400 million years, insects have radiated into at least a million species, accounting for more than half of all known living organisms: they are the most successful group in the animal kingdom, found in almost all environments of the planet, ranging in body size from a mere 0.1 mm up to half a meter. Their eyes, together with the respective parts of the nervous system dedicated t...

Modelling Fly Motion Vision