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Human eye inspires advance in computer vision from Boston College researchers
- caffeine 17y agoPapers available at: http://www.cs.bc.edu/~hjiang/pub.html http://www.cs.bc.edu/~hjiang/pub.html
- pygy 17y agoThe title is incorrect (it should be "mammal, maybe vertabrate brain", rather than "human eye"), but the findings are wicked cool. But if you emulate it too accurately, you'll end up emulating it's flaws too, like change blindness... see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voAntzB7EwE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voAntzB7EwE . This video is more about fooling the higher cortical areas, but similar problems occur at a lower level too.
- biohacker42 17y agoAnyone else surprised that this is a recent advancement, or is it just me? Perhaps I'm underestimating the difficulty of the implementation? But it seems to me anyone with any ability for introspection should have known that: 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