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Benchmarking photon-limited performance of optic flow processing algorithms

  • University of Maryland, College Park

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Abstract

In this paper we present a simulation framework for testing and benchmarking the photon-limited performance of optic flow processing techniques. We explore the performance of traditional gradient-based and feature-based optic flow algorithms as well as the biologically-inspired elementary motion detector. We show that biologically-inspired spatial pooling techniques can successfully be implemented in the gradient-based image interpolation algorithm and the elementary motion detector to extend low-light capabilities by more than one order of magnitude. We also show that block matching algorithms can accurately compute optic flow even when a single frame may capture <1000 photons. This framework provides a tool to further explore the mechanisms that underlie the observed low-light performance of biological vision systems and to understand the relative performance of different approaches for implementing optic flow in hardware.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISCAS 2016 - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1766-1769
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781479953400
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 29 2016
Event2016 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2016 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: May 22 2016May 25 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
Volume2016-July
ISSN (Print)0271-4310

Conference

Conference2016 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2016
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period05/22/1605/25/16

Keywords

  • low-light vision
  • motion detection
  • optic flow

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