Authors:
Wahiba Taouali
1
;
Nicolas Rougier
2
and
Frédéric Alexandre
2
Affiliations:
1
Université Henri Poincaré - LORIA, France
;
2
INRIA Nancy - Grand Est Research Center, France
Keyword(s):
Superior Colliculus, Dynamic Neural Field, Visual Attention, Ocular Saccades.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Bio-Inspired and Humanoid Robotics
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Computational Intelligence
;
Computational Neuroscience
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Methodologies and Methods
;
Neural Network Software and Applications
;
Neural Networks
;
Neurocomputing
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Pattern Recognition
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Sensor Networks
;
Signal Processing
;
Soft Computing
;
Theory and Methods
Abstract:
The superior colliculus is an important structure in the visuomotor pathway of mammals, that is known to be deeply involved in visual saccadic behavior. We present a model of this structure based on biological data, the specificity of which is related to the homogeneity of the underlying substratum of computation. This makes it more suitable to process massive visual flows on a distributed architecture, as it could be requested in a realistic task in autonomous robotics. The model presented here is embedded in the exogenous part of the visual pathway, from the retina to the superior colliculus.