Autonomous Multi-Domain Attention Control

This paper addresses four questions concerning control of attention: how to direct attention to novel or ‘interesting’ events in the world, how to separate novel or interesting information from everything else, how to perform this segmentation of the world at multiple levels, how to develop perceptual machinery capable of this. To all four questions we provide answers arising from work in our WRAITH project. Each answer proves to be effective in both an engineering sense (having contributed to the control of an active vision robot in natural surroundings) and a scientific sense, having sufficient biological plausibility to be a working hypothesis about natural visual systems.