Insect-vision inspired collision warning vision processor for automobiles

Insect - Inspired Vision and Visually Guided Behavior

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...

Bio-Inspired Vision Processor for Ultra-Fast Object Categorization

We present a scalable hardware architecture to implement large-scale bio-inspired synthetic vision systems. The system is a fully digital implementation of a modular vision engine that can perform real-time detection, recognition and segmentation of mega-pixel images. We present performance comparisons between software versions of the vision system executing on CPU and GPU machines, and show th...

Millimeter-wave insect vision sensors for collision avoidance in space

A novel collision avoidance sensor with possible application in satellite navigation is presented. Passive radiometric detection of colliding objects is used, offering the advantage that it does not interfere with satellite communication or guidance systems. Operation in the millimetre-wave band allows the possibility of full scale integration of front-end detection circuitry with the back-end ...

Flying Insect Inspired Vision for Micro-Air-Vehicle Navigation

More often homeland security, disaster mitigation and military operations are performed in urban environments. Time consuming, labor intensive and possibly dangerous tasks like bomb detection, search-and-rescue and reconnaissance done with robots could save resources. An aerial robot capable of flying in closed quarters like warehouses, stadiums, underground parking lots and tunnels is featured...