Multi-passageway Information Processing Mechanism and Application in Vision Tracing

Inspired by principle of human vision system, the multi-passageway parallel processing mechanism was introduced and used in the research on robot vision tracing. After the analysis of human vision system, a new object tracking approach simulating human vision is presented in this paper. This method uses color, shape and moving information, which are three main features of moving objects in a multi-passageway parallel processing way, and the result is obtained by synthesizing the output information of each passageway. A new contour extraction method is proposed by the concept of recept field (RF), and the model of 'on' RF is used in object's shape information processing. Some tracking experiments using this approach have been done on a multifunctional experiment platform. Comparing with traditional serial processing mechanism, the results of tracking experiments showed that this method could improve the image processing speed and precision in a great degree