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January 2006
Cambridge Research Systems is proud to be a part of Decisions in Motion - a Cognitive Systems Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) of the 6th EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.
Main objectives of Decisions in Motion
The research goals of the STREP Decisions on Motion will be to describe the neural mechanisms used to guide behaviour in complex visual scenes, in which the observer is in motion and navigates to avoid moving objects. We will measure motion-based image segmentation in the visual cortex, and derive neural models that explicitly make use of a hierarchy of sensory areas (low-, mid-, high-level visual areas) to extract meaningful information about the location and motion of objects in the environment. The outputs of these units will feed into a decision-making process that will weight these inputs and relations between these inputs based on utility functions. The resulting cognitive architecture will be tested in complex visual environments to determine the efficiency of the image motion segmentation and goal-directed adaptive behaviour. The unique cooperation between several disciplines in the neuro-and cognitive sciences guarantees that the processes revealed in natural neural systems will be endowed into artificial cognitive systems for efficient image segmentation and sensory-guided decision making.
This approach will lead to an improved design of augmented cognition systems to support robotic control systems to extract object information from moving scenes. Decisions in Motion will exploit this newly gained knowledge to provide real-time guidance systems for artificial cognitive systems. A final goal will involve the use of neural network models to assist patients with visual impairments (VisGuide).
Click to view the poster presented at the euCognition Network Inaugural Meeting, Nice, France
Decisions in Motion aims to provide the enabling technology for the following
innovations:
- MRI-Live: A VR-stimulation and behavioural recording unit for MRI scanners
- Robotic Platform: a mobile robot to test the computational model in a
virtual or real-world environment
- VisGuide: a head-worn augmented cognition device for the visually impaired.
Cambridge Research Systems' role
Cambridge Research Systems is leading supplier of tools for vision science. We have been in business for over 17 years, and have expertise in a number of areas highly relevant to the Decisions in Motion project, including:
Our team, led by Peter West, will provide the enabling technology to the consortium for the investigation of the neural mechanisms of optical flow fields with fMRI.
- CRS will develop MRI-Live, a unique eye-tracking and visual stimulation system that can be used in fMRI environments, making stereoscopic stimulation with a wide visual field possible.
- Furthermore CRS will develop VisGuide, a platform for an assistant system for the visually impaired. VisGuide will be controlled by the consortium´s models, and will act as a knowledge-rich intelligent agent to augment user cognition.
MRI-Live Project Completion
October 2006: MRI-Live was previewed at the Society for Neuroscience Meeeting
in Atlanta, USA.
June 2006: MRI-Live was unveiled at the Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, USA.
MRI-Live is now installed at the University of Regensburg in Germany and used by Prof. Dr. Mark Greenlee, with reference sites coming soon in the UK, USA and Japan.
The Decisions in Motion consortium
Members of the consortium looking chilly at the kick-off meeting!
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