Attention Models for Vergence Movements based on the JAMF Framework and the POPEYE Robot

In this work we describe a novel setup for implementation and development of stereo vision attention models in a realistic embodied setting. We introduce a stereo vision robot head, called POPEYE, that provides degrees of freedom comparable to a human head. We describe the geometry of the robot as well as the characteristics that make it a good candidate for studying models of visual attention. Attentional robot control is implemented with JAMF, a graphical modeling framework which allows to easily implement current state-of-the-art saliency models. We give a brief overview over JAMF and show implementations of four exemplary attention models that can control the robot head.