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Biologically-inspired time and location of impact prediction from optical ﬂow

Date

Authors

McCarthy , Christopher

Metta , Giorgio

Publisher

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

Abstract

We investigated the use of optical flow to predict the time and location of impact of an incoming object. By examining local patterns of optical flow, we make predictions on an object's trajectory with respect to a stationary observer, and its time-to-con

Keywords

Keywords: Cognitive robotics; Computation model; Local patterns; Motor response; Premotor cortex; Real image sequences; Threat avoidance; Threat detection; Time-to-contact; Visual response; Mammals; Neurons; Optical flows; Robotics Cognitive robotics; Optical flow; Time-to-contact

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/50422

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ANU Research Publications

Source

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2011 proceedings

Type

Conference paper

DOI

10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979702

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2037-12-31

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