To achieve continuous operation and thus facilitate use of vision in a dynamic scenario, it is necessary to introduce a purpose for the visual processing. This provides information that may control the visual processing and thus limits the amount of resources needed to obtain the required results. A proposed architecture for vision systems is presented, along with an architecture for visual modules. This architecture enables both goal and data driven processing, with a potentially changing balance between the two modes. To illustrate the potential of the proposed architecture, a sample system for recovery of scene depth is presented, with experimental results which demonstrate a scalable performance.

Date Published: 30 April 1992
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 1611, Sensor Fusion IV: Control Paradigms and Data Structures, (30 April 1992); doi: 10.1117/12.57945

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1611:
Sensor Fusion IV: Control Paradigms and Data Structures
Paul S. Schenker, Editor(s)