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The Math of a Fly's Eye May Prove Useful
cunniff writes "Wired Magazine points us to recent research that demonstrates an algorithm derived from the actual biological implementation of fly vision (PLoS paper here). Quoting the paper: 'Here we present a model with multiple levels of non-linear dynamic adaptive components based directly on the known or suspected responses of neurons within the visual motion pathway of the fly brain. By testing the model under realistic high-dynamic range conditions we show that the addition of these elements makes the motion detection model robust across a large variety of images, velocities and accelerations.' The researchers claim that 'The implementation of this new algorithm could provide a very useful and robust velocity estimator for artificial navigation systems.' Additionally, the paper describes the algorithm as extremely simple, capable of being implemented on very small and power-efficient processors. Best of all, the entire paper is public and hosted via a service that allows authenticated users to give feedback."
After presenting his paper, researcher David O'Carroll strode off the stage and into a sliding glass door.
-Peter
And if God had intended for Man to fly, we would have been born with airline tickets.
But where's the source code???
You don't want to read it. It's written in Fly and the comments contain too many buzz-words.
It's also buggy.
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
And if God had intended for Man to drink beer we would have been born with stomachs.
"Yes that string of complicated words would explain this." - Farnsworth, Futurama
Someone from Mumbai underbid you on ELance again ?
Fly tends to get caught in the Web, but you can usually Spider the results. Also Gecko eats Fly.
It got stuck after they wrote their fly paper.
which is totally what she said
We've implemented this algorithm in several autonomous flying surveillance vehicles. While it appears to work adequately, we're still trying to determine why the only thing they manage to locate is cow shit.
Have gnu, will travel.
"Fly" programming language ...and just like the original thing, it has garbage collection!
-- Terry