Human eye-inspired solution provides 10 times better vision to computers | Albuquerque Express

Human eye-inspired solution provides 10 times better vision to computers

Albuquerque Express (ANI) Thursday 18th June, 2009

Washington, June 18 : Fascinated by the working of the human eye, computer scientists at Boston College (BC) have developed a new technique that allows computers to see objects as fleeting as a butterfly or tropical fish with almost double the accuracy and 10 times the speed of earlier methods.

The novel linear solution has direct applications in the fields of action and object recognition, surveillance, wide-base stereomicroscopy and three-dimensional shape reconstruction.

In the research, Hao Jiang and Stella X. Yu developed a novel solution of linear algorithms to streamline the computer's work.

Previously, computer visualization relied on software that captured the live image, then hunted through millions of possible object configurations to find a match.

Thus, instead of combing through the image bank, which is a time- and memory-consuming computing task, the researchers in the new study turned to the mechanics of the human eye to give computers better vision.

"When the human eye searches for an object it looks globally for the rough location, size and orientation of the object. Then it zeros in on the details. Our method behaves in a similar fashion, using a linear approximation to explore the search space globally and quickly; then it works to identify the moving object by frequently updating trust search regions," said Jiang.

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