Capturing and rendering an image that fulfills the observer’s expectations is a difficult task. This is due to the fact that the signal reaching the eye is processed by a complex mechanism before forming a percept, whereas a capturing device only retains the physical value of light intensities. It is especially difficult to render complex scenes with highly varying luminances. For example, a pi...

The paper describes Neural Modeling Fields (NMF) for object perception, a bio-inspired paradigm. I discuss previous difficulties in object detection and recognition, and describe how NMF overcomes this difficulties. Neural and mathematical mechanisms are described and future research directions outlined. I. PAST DIFFICULTIES, COMPLEXITY AND LOGIC Biological object perception involves signals fr...

Vision-based self-localization is the ability to derive one’s own location from visual input only without knowledge of a previous position or idiothetic information. It is often assumed that the visual mechanisms and invariance properties used for object recognition will also be helpful for localization. Here we show that this is neither logically reasonable nor empirically supported. We argue ...

The application of ACO-based algorithms in data mining is growing over the last few years and several supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms have been developed using this bio-inspired approach. Most recent works concerning unsupervised learning have been focused on clustering, showing great potential of ACO-based techniques. This work presents an ACO-based clustering algorithm inspire...

Sense and avoid capability enables insects to fly versatilely and robustly in dynamic complex environment. Their biological principles are so practical and efficient that inspired we human imitating them in our flying machines. In this paper, we studied a novel bio-inspired collision detector and its application on a quadcopter. The detector is inspired from LGMD neurons in the locusts, and mod...

A t the turn of the nineteenth century, Pieter Harting and George Rainey laid the foundations of a science called “synthetic morphology”1. The inspiration for the name probably came from Wöhler’s discovery of urea synthesis in 1828, a breakthrough commonly perceived to mark the beginning of synthetic organic chemistry. The primary goal of Harting and Rainey’s synthetic morphology was to explain...

521 echnology is taking us to a world where myriads of heavily networked devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways, and at multiple scales, from the global Internet scale down to micro-and nano-devices. Many of these devices are highly mobile and autonomous, and must adapt to the surrounding environment in a totally distributed and unsupervised way. fundamental research challeng...

Through evolutionary processes, biological composites have been optimized to fulfil specific functions. This optimization is exemplified in the mineralized dactyl club of the smashing predator stomatopod (specifically, Odontodactylus scyllarus). This crustacean's club has been designed to withstand the thousands of high-velocity blows that it delivers to its prey. The endocuticle of this multir...

We propose a novel bio-inspired solution for biomedical article classification. Our method draws from an existing model of T-cell cross-regulation in the vertebrate immune system (IS), which is a complex adaptive system of millions of cells interacting to distinguish between harmless and harmful intruders. Analogously, automatic biomedical article classification assumes that the interaction and...