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Conjunction Search Using a 1-D, Analog VLSI-based, Attentional Search/Tracking Chip
Atlanta, Georgia March 21-March 24
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ARVLSI.1999.75605420th Anniversary Conference on Advanc ...
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Timothy Horiuchi, Johns Hopkins University
Ernst Niebur, Johns Hopkins University
The ability of animals to select a limited region of sensory space for scrutiny is an important factor in dealing with cluttered or complex sensory environments. Such an ``attentional'' system in the visual domain is believed to be involved in both the perception of objects and the control of eye movements in primates. While we can intentionally guide our attention to perform a specific task, it is also reflexively drawn to "salient" features in our sensory input space. Understanding how high-level task information and low-level stimulus information can combine to control our sensory processing is of great interest to both neuroscience and engineering. Towards this end, we have designed and fabricated a one-dimensional, analog VLSI vision chip that models covert attentional search and tracking. We extend previous analog VLSI work (Morris and DeWeerth, 1997) on the delayed onset of inhibition in a winner-take-all network to now use extracted image edges as input to the attentional saliency map and to perform serial search on a particular feature conjunction (spatial derivative and the direction-of-motion). We further demonstrate the ability to modify the circuit's parameters ``on-the-fly'' to switch between a search mode and a tracking mode.
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Timothy Horiuchi, Ernst Niebur, "Conjunction Search Using a 1-D, Analog VLSI-based, Attentional Search/Tracking Chip," arvlsi, pp.276, 20th Anniversary Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI, 1999
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