Auteur / Autrice : | María-José Escobar-Zuniga |
Direction : | Pierre Kornprobst, Thierry Viéville |
Type : | Thèse de doctorat |
Discipline(s) : | Automatique, traitement du signal et des images |
Date : | Soutenance en 2009 |
Etablissement(s) : | Nice |
Ecole(s) doctorale(s) : | École doctorale Sciences et technologies de l'information et de la communication (Sophia Antipolis, Alpes-Maritimes) |
Résumé
This thesis addresses the study of the motion perception in mammals and how bio-inspired systems can be applied to real applications. The first part of this thesis relates how the visual information is processed in the mammal's brains and how motion estimation is usually modeled. Based on this analysis of the state of the art, we propose a feedforward V1-MT core architecture. This feedforward V1-MT core architecture will be a basis to study two different kinds of applications. The first application is human action recognition, which is still a challenging problem in the computer vision community. We show how our bio-inspired method can be successfully applied to this real application. Interestingly, we show how several computational properties inspired from motion processing in mammals, allow us to reach high quality results, which will be compared to latest reference results. The second application of the bio-inspired architecture proposed in this thesis, is to consider the problem of motion integration for the solution of the aperture problem. We investigate the role of delayed V1 surround suppression, and how the 2D information extracted through this mechanism can be integrated to propose a solution for the aperture problem. Finally, we highlight a variety of important issues in the determination of motion estimation and additionally we present many potential avenues for future research efforts.