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Our goal is to realize a robust, real-time, autonomous and compact perception system for a multisensor robot. It is suggested that such a perception system should rely on a set of basic modules called reflex operators. These operators perform region of interest extraction in preeattentive mode and contribute to object identification in attentive mode. In this paper, we focus on vision reflex operators and their hardware implementation for which we propose an original approach. Vision automata are emulated in real-time using a data-flow machine dedicated to image processing with its associated functional programming langage. Emulation step provides hardware ressource information for subsequent VLSI integration.
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Coutelle, C., Fortunel, C., Eccher, M., Zavidovique, B. (1992). Vision reflex operators. In: Nakamura, A., Nivat, M., Saoudi, A., Wang, P.S.P., Inoue, K. (eds) Parallel Image Analysis. ICPIA 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 654. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56346-6_32
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