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Early Perceptual and Cognitive Development in Robot Vision

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From Animals to Animats 9 (SAB 2006)

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This paper describes research on the design of a robot vision system that is able to develop its capabilities to perceive objects and cognise some fundamental relations between objects. Through a developmental approach, our robot vision system is adaptive to environmental changes and follows autonomous self development. The system can develop its vision gradually from motion detection, to analysis of static features of objects, to object individuation, to identifying object unity, to tracking objects and finally to understanding some fundamental object relations.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, SY23 1LN, UK

    Xing Zhang & Mark H. Lee

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  1. Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, LARRAL, Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185, Roma, Italy

    Stefano Nolfi

  2. Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, (ISTC-CNR), Via San Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Gianluca Baldassarre

  3. Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, ISTC-CNR, Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Raffaele Calabretta  & Davide Marocco  & 

  4. The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230, Odense M, Denmark

    John C. T. Hallam

  5. UPMC Univ Paris 6, FRE2507, ISIR, F-75016, Paris, France

    Jean-Arcady Meyer

  6. Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life, Institute of Cognitive, Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy

    Orazio Miglino

  7. Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, 44, Via San Martino della, 00185, Rome, Battaglia, Italy

    Domenico Parisi

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Zhang, X., Lee, M.H. (2006). Early Perceptual and Cognitive Development in Robot Vision. In: Nolfi, S., et al. From Animals to Animats 9. SAB 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4095. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11840541_3

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