Spatial Cognition of Humans and Brain-inspired Artificial Agents

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Abstract

Present vision systems primarily operate on still images or an image sequence but hardly consider continuous perception across actions. If sensors are attached to the body of a human-like agent who interacts with the environment, several questions arise about how to update the reference systems with each action. In our European research project “Spatial Cognition” we address this topic by a combination of experimental and computational work which should finally merge into a large-scale model of human-like space perception and spatial memory being tested on a humanoid agent in virtual reality.

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Acknowledgments

This project report provides an overview of the EU research project “Spatial Cognition”. Special thanks is given to the further PI’s of the project Neil Burges, Rufin VanRullen, Pieter Medendorp and Patrick Cavanagh who supported this report.

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  1. Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Straße der Nationen 62, 09107, Chemnitz, Germany

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This work has been supported by the European Project FP7-NBIS Spatial Cognition “(Grant No. 600785)” and the DFG funded Grossgerät “Mehrbenutzerfähiges Virtual Reality System für kognitive Agenten”.

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Hamker, F. Spatial Cognition of Humans and Brain-inspired Artificial Agents. Künstl Intell 29, 83–88 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-014-0338-8

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Keywords

  • Spatial cognition
  • Visual attention
  • Perceptual stability