What's Catching Your Eye? the Visual Attention Mechanism

Delve into the world of visual attention mechanisms with Giulia D'Angelo as she explores the interplay of bottom-up and top-down processes, offering insights into bio-inspired models for enhanced robotic perception and interaction.

Every agent, whether animal or robotic, needs to process its visual sensory input in an efficient way, to allow understanding of, and interaction with, the environment. The process of filtering revelant information out of the continuous bombardment of complex sensory data is called selective attention. Visual attention is the result of the complex interplay between bottom-up and top-down mechanisms to perceptually organise and understand the scene. Giulia will describe how to approach visual attention using bio-inspired models emulating the human visual system to allow robots to interact with their surroundings.

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About the Speakers

Giulia D'Angelo

Giulia D'Angelo

Researcher with a PhD in visual attention neuromorphic algorithms for robotics (IIT). Passionate about bioinspired architectures and event-based vision.
Fabrizio Ottati

Fabrizio Ottati

AI/ML Processor Engineer at NXP, PhD from Politecnico di Torino. Focuses on event cameras, digital hardware, and deep learning. Maintains Tonic & Expelliarmus.
Gregor Lenz

Gregor Lenz

Co-Founder & CTO at Neurobus, PhD in neuromorphic engineering. Focuses on event cameras, SNNs, and open-source software. Maintains Tonic & Expelliarmus.

Cameron Barker

Neuromorphic Engineer at Ripga ltd., contributing his expertise to the development of neuromorphic technologies and applications.

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