A Miniature Biological Eagle-Eye Vision System for Small Target Detection
This addresses small target detection, a challenging problem in vision systems, with an incremental approach based on biological inspiration.
The paper tackled small target detection by designing a miniature vision system inspired by eagle-eye structure and mechanisms, using a hardware platform with dual cameras and cooperative control, and experimental results showed it can accurately detect small targets with strong adaptive ability.
Small target detection is known to be a challenging problem. Inspired by the structural characteristics and physiological mechanism of eagle-eye, a miniature vision system is designed for small target detection in this paper. First, a hardware platform is established, which consists of a pan-tilt, a short-focus camera and a long-focus camera. Then, based on the visual attention mechanism of eagle-eye, the cameras with different focal lengths are controlled cooperatively to achieve small target detection. Experimental results show that the designed biological eagle-eye vision system can accurately detect small targets, which has a strong adaptive ability.