House Fly (musca Domestica) Inspired Compound Vision Sensor and Bio- Mimetic Signal Processing

The idea of compound vision sensors is to create electronic devices and methods which could exceed the capability of existing vision sensor technologies. Previous research shows that motion hyperacuity, or better motion detection capability, of common house fly (Musca domestica) allows designing of better compound vision sensors for edge detection and near instantaneous object tracking. The reason for better results is preprocessing of image data; extracting motion, and object information from the background and then sending only limited desired information to the brain or CPU in an engineered system. The aim of compound vision sensor research is to develop novel sensors that outperform existing technologies in specific real world applications.