Section: Research Program

Neuromorphic vision

From the simplest vision architectures in insects to the extremely complex cortical hierarchy in primates, it is fascinating to observe how biology has found efficient solutions to solve vision problems. Pioneers in computer vision had this dream to build machines that could match and perhaps outperform human vision. This goal has not been reached, at least not on the scale that was originally planned, but the field of computer vision has met many other challenges from an unexpected variety of applications and fostered entirely new scientific and technological areas such as computer graphics and medical image analysis. However, modelling and emulating with computers biological vision largely remains an open challenge while there are still many outstanding issues in computer vision.

Our group is working on neuromorphic vision by proposing bio-inspired methods following our progress in visual neuroscience. Our goal is to bridge the gap between biological and computer vision, by applying our visual neuroscience models to challenging problems from computer vision such as optical flow estimation [91] , coding/decoding approaches [80] , [81] or classification [68] , [69] .

Selected publications on this topic: lien .