Multifoveamento em multirresolução com fóveas móveis

Abstract

Foveation is a computer vision technique for visual information reduction obtained by applying an image transformation in the spatial domain to the multiresolution domain. However, this technique is limited to a single fovea context-dependent mobility. This work proposes the definition and the construction of a multifoveated model called MMMF (Multiresolution Multifoveation using Mobile Foveae) based on an earlier model called MMF (Multiresolution with Moving Fovea). In the context of multiple foveae, the application of various MMF structures, one for each fovea, results in an increase in processing time, since there are intersections between regions of different structures, which are processed multiple times. Given MMF structures, an algorithm in order to get disjoint regions which are to be processed is proposed, avoiding redundant regions and thereby reducing the processing time. Experiments are proposed to validate the model and to verify its applicability in the computer vision context. Results show the gain in processing time of the proposed model compared to the use of multiple MMF structures.