A MOSAIC-BASED VISUAL MEMORY WITH APPLICATIONS TO ACTIVE SCENE EXPLORATION
Processing visual data is an important ability of interactive systems to act in dynamically changing environments. Looking at the human visual and cognitive system this requires efficient mechanisms for data processing and storage as well as intelligent strategies for data acquisition. In this paper we present a visual memory supporting efficient representation of image sequences of active cameras in an online fashion. The memory is based on mosaic images extending the field of view of a camera in space and time. As one prototypical field of application for the memory active scene exploration is discussed. The temporally and spatially integrated data of the memory combined with additional feature maps serves as an ideal starting point for the selection of focus points. Hence the memory demonstrates the combination of efficient acquisition and storage of visual data and helps to provide interactive systems with high flexibility to operate in dynamically changing environments.