Next-Generation Image and Sound Processing Strategies: Exploiting the Biological Model

摘要

The main objective of this project is to extend the technical state- of-the-art in mid-level visual and auditory signal processing using an integrative biologically inspired approach. Though our research and development efforts are focused on different levels of sensory information processing, from low-level sensory adaptation to object selection and recognition, all of our efforts described in this progress report intersect at the level of features: what low level sensory features to extract, what methods used to extract them, and how to adapt feature detector parameters, such as their gains, in order to perform optimally in changing environments. In this progress report, we detail developments in each of these areas.