A new application for salliency maps: Synthetic vision of autonomous actors.

Nicolas Courty (1, 2) , E. Marchand (3) , Bruno Arnaldi (2)

1 FT R&D - France Télécom Recherche & Développement
2 SIAMES - Computer generated images, animation, modeling and simulation
3 VISTA - Vision spatio-temporelle et active

We present in this paper a new and original application for saliency maps, intending to simulate the visual perception of a synthetic actor. Within computer graphics field, simulating virtual humans has become a challenging task. Animating such an autonomous actor within a virtual environment requires most of time the modeling of a perception-decision-action cycle. To model a part of the perception process, we have designed a new model of saliency map, based on geometric and depth information, allowing our synthetic humanoid to perceive its environment in a biologically plausible way.

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Nicolas Courty, E. Marchand, Bruno Arnaldi. A new application for salliency maps: Synthetic vision of autonomous actors.. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, ICIP'03, 2003, Barcelona, Spain, France. pp.1065-1068. ⟨inria-00352078⟩