Annex 1 : "Description of work"

Periodic Progress Report 1st year, 2002

Periodic Progress Report 2nd year, 2003

Periodic Progress Report 3rd year, 2004

D3.1 Visual templates with spatial context - Gestalts in Space. Delivered in 2002

D3.2 Visual templates with spatial context - Gestalts in Space-time. Delivered in 2003

D5.1 Psychophysical investigations of gaze and Col during simulated driving in humans. Delivered in 2002

D5.2 Task optimized representations and the Col. Delivered in 2003

D6.1 Algorithm for generating task-optimized spatial repressentations of neural activities. Delivered in 2003

D6.2 Solution for relating tasks to combinations of group-activites. Delivered in 2004

Calow, D., Krüger, N., Wörgötter, F. and Lappe, M. (2004).Space variant filtering of optic flow for robust three dimensional motion estimation. Fourth International ICSC Symposium on ENGINEERING OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, 2004.

Krüger, N. and Wörgötter. F.(2004).Statistical and deterministic regularities: Utilisation of motion and grouping in biological and artificial visual systems. Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, 131.

Krüger, N.,Felsberg, M. and Wörgötter, F.(2004).Processing multi-modal primitives from image sequences. Fourth International ICSC Symposium on ENGINEERING OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, 2004.

Mota, S., Ros, E., Ortigosa, E.M. and Pelayo, F.J. (2004) Bio-inspired motion detection for blind spot overtaking monitor. International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Special Issue of Neuromorphic Systems (In Press).

Pugeault, N.,Wörgötter, F. and Krüger, N. (2004).A non-local stereo similarity based on collinear groups. Fourth International ICSC Symposium on ENGINEERING OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, 2004.

Sabatini, S.P., Solari, F. and Secchi, L. (2004).A continuum-field Model of visual cortex stimulus-driven behaviour: Emergent oscillations and coherence fields, Neurocomputing Vol 57C pp 411-433

Wörgötter, F. et al. (2004).Early cognitive vision: Using Gestalt-laws for task-dependent ,active, image-processing. Natural Computing 3: pp 293-321

Beintema, J.A.,van den Berg, A.V. and Lappe, M. (2003).Circular receptive field structures for flow analysis and heading detection, in L. Vaina, S. Beardsley, and S. Rushton, Optic flow and beyond. Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Press.

Cavalleri, P., Sabatini, S.P., Solari, F. and Bisio, G.M. (2003). Centric-minded templates for Self-motion Perception. Vision Research, 43(13), 1473-1493.

Deleus, F.F. and Van Hulle, M.M. (2003). Monitoring elasticity between science and technology domains and its visualization. Scientometrics, 56 (1), 147-160.

Diaz, J., Ros, E., Mota, S., Rotella, G., Cañas, A. and Sabatini, S.P. (2003).Optical flow for cars overtaking monitor: the rear mirror blind spot problem, 10th. International Conference on Vision in Vehicles (VIV'2003), Granada (Spain), 7-10 September 2003.

Díaz, J., Mota, S., Ros, E. and Botella, G. (2003).Neural competitive structures for segmentation based on motion features, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2686, pp. 710-717 (ISSN: 0302-9743), Springer Verlag.

Felsberg, M. and Krüger, N. (2003). A probablistic definition of intrinsic dimensionality for images. Pattern Recognition, 24th DAGM Symposium.

Frenz, H., Bremmer, F. and Lappe, M. (2003). Discrimination of travel distances from situated optic flow. Vision Research, 43, 2173-2183.

Gautama, T. and Van Hulle, M.M. (2003). Surrogate-based test for Granger causality. 2003 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (Toulouse, France, September 17-19, 2003), in press.

Gautama, T., Mandic, D.P. and Van Hulle, M.M. (2003). A Differential Entropy Based Method for Determining the Optimal Embedding Parameters of a Signal, Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2003), (Hong Kong, April 6-10, 2003), Vol. VI, pp. 29--32.

Gautama, T., Mandic, D.P. and Van Hulle, M.M. (2003), A Non-parametric Test for Detecting the Complex-Valued Nature of Time Series, Proceedings of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES'2003).(Oxford (GB), 3-5 September, 2003).Part I, V. Palade, R.J. Howlett and L. Jain, Eds., Germany: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1364--1371.

Gautama, T., Mandic, D.P. and Van Hulle, M.M. (2003). Signal nonlinearity in fMRI: A comparison between BOLD and MION. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 22(5), 636-644.

Gautama, T., Mandic, D.P., and Van Hulle, M.M. (2003). On the indications of nonlinear structures in brain electrical activity. Physical Review E, 67, 046204.

Johnston, A., Durant, S. and Dale, J. L. (2003). A labile representation of spatial information in the visual cortex. Journal of Vision, 3(9), 224a

Johnston, A., McOwan, P.W. and Benton, C.P. (2004).Biological computation of image motion from flows over boundaries. J Physiol. Paris. Journal of Physiology - PARIS 97 (2003) 325-334

Krüger, N. and Felsberg, M. (2003).A continuous formulation of intrinsic dimension. Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference.

Krüger, N. and Wörgötter, F. (2003). Symbolic Pointillism: Computer art motivated by human perception. Proceedings of the AISB 2003 Symposium on Biologically inspired Machine Vision, Theory and Application, Wales, 63-69.

Krüger, N., Lappe, M. and Wörgötter, F. (2003).Biologically motivated multi-modal processing of visual primitives. AISB Journal 1(4).

Lappe, M. (2003).Building blocks for time-to-contact estimation by the brain. In: H. Hecht and G. Savelsberg, Theories of Time-to-Contact (Advances in Psychology Series), Elsevier, (in press)

Mota, S., Ros, E., Díaz, J., Botella, G.,Vargas, F. and Prieto, A. (2003). Motion driven segmentation scheme for car overtaking sequences. 10th. International Conference on Vision in Vehicles (VIV'2003), Granada (Spain), 7-10 September 2003.

Mutihac, R. and Van Hulle, M.M. (2003). A comparative survey on adaptive neural network algorithms for independent component analysis. Romanian Reports in Physics, 55 (1), 43-67.

Mutihac, R. and Van Hulle, M.M. (2003). Biological relevance of features extracted from natural images. Romanian Reports in Physics, 56, 3-4, in press.

Mutihac, R., Van Hulle, M.M. (2003). Bayesian restoration of medical X-ray digital images. Proceedings 2nd Int. Conf. on Electronics, Control and Signal Processing and E-Activities .World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS).(Singapore, 7-12 December, 2002), CD ROM, 451-288.

Mutihac, R., Van Hulle, M.M. (2003). Statistics of feature extraction by topographic independent component analysis from natural images. Proceedings 2nd Int. Conf. on Electronics, Control and Signal Processing ,World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)).(Singapore, 7-12 December, 2002), CD ROM, 451-289.

Orban, G.A., Pauwels, K., Van Hulle, M.M. and Vanduffel, W. (2003). Attention dependent suppression of metabolic activity at the early stages of the macaque visual system. In Neurobiology of Attention, L. Itti, G. Rees, J. Tsotsos (Eds.), Academic Press, Elsevier, in press.

Pugeault, N. and Krüger, N. (2003).Multi--modal matching applied to stereo. Proceedings of the BMVC 2003.

Sabatini, S.P. and Solari, F. (2003).An Early Cognitive Approach to Visual Motion Analysis. AIIA03, 23-26 September 2003, Pisa, Italy

Sabatini, S.P., Solari, F. and Bisio, G.M. (2003).Emergence of motion-in-depth selectivity in the visual cortex: An evidence of phase-based second-order motion mechanisms? European Conference on Visual Perception, 1-5 September 2003, Paris, France

Sabatini, S.P., Solari, F. and Bisio, G.M. (2003).Lattice Models for Context-driven Regularization in Motion Perception. WIRN03, 5-7 June 2003, Vietri, Italy

Sabatini, S.P., Solari, F. and Secchi, L. (2003).Emergence of Oscillations and Spatio-temporal Coherence States in a Continuum-model of Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons International Workshop Neuronal Coding, 20-25 September 2003, Aulla, Italy

Sabatini, S.P., Solari, F., Cavalleri, P. and Bisio, G.M. (2003). Phase-based binocular perception of Motion-in-depth: Cortical-like operators and aVLSI Architectures. EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 7, 690-702.

Solari, F., Sabatini, S.P. and Bisio, G.M. (2003).Context-based structuring action on optic flow fields by generative models of first-order motion primitives: velocity likelihoods and Gestalt detection. European Conference on Visual Perception, 1-5 September 2003, Paris, France

Tan, S., Dale, J.L. and Johnston, A.(2003). Performance of three recursive algorithms for fast space-variant Gaussian filtering. Real-Time Imaging, 9 (3),215-228.

Van Hulle, M.M. and Gautama, T. (2003). Optimal smoothing of kernel-based topographic maps with application to density-based clustering of shapes. VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, in press.

Beintema, J.A., Berg, A.V.v.d. and Lappe, M.. (2002).Receptive field structure of flow detectors for heading perception. In: T. G. Dietterich and S. Becker and Z. Ghahramani (eds), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14, MIT Press,

Dale, J. and Johnston, A. (2002).A real-time implementation of a neuromorphic optic-flow algorithm. Perception, 31, 136.

Deleus, F.F., De Maziere, P. and Van Hulle, M.M. (2002). Functional connectivity modelling in fMRI based on causal networks. 2002 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (Martigny, Valais, Switzerland, September 4-6, 2002), pp. 119-128.

Gautama, T. and Van Hulle, M.M. (2002). A phase-based approach to the estimation of the optical flow field using spatial filtering. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 13(5), 1127 -1136.

Krüger, N. and Wörgötter, F. (2002). Different Degree of Genetical Prestructuring in the Ontogenesis of Visual Abilities based on Deterministic and Statistical Regularities. Proceedings of the 'Workshop on Growing up Artifacts that Live', SAB 2002.

Krüger, N. and Wörgötter, F. (2002). Multi Modal Estimation of Collinearity and Parallelism in Natural Image Sequences. Accepted for 'Network: Computation in Neural Systems'.

Krüger, N. and Wörgötter, F. (2002).Statistics of second order multi-modal feature events and their exploitation in biological and artificial visual systems. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV 2002).

Krüger, N., Felsberg, M., Gebken, C. and Pörksen, M. (2002). An explicit and Compact Coding of Geometric and Structural Information Applied to Stereo Processing. Proceedings of the DAGM workshop `Vision, Modeling and Visualization', Zürich

Krüger, N., Jäger, T. and Perwass, C. (2002). Extraction of Object Representations from Stereo Image Sequence Utilizing Statistical and Deterministic Regularities in Visual Data. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV 2002).

Morillas, C., Morillas, S., Ros, E., Díaz, A.F., Pino, B. and Pelayo, F.J.(2002).Real-time vision guided movement with reconfigurable Hardware, Workshop Dynamic Perception, Bochum, Germany, November.

Mutihac, R. and Van Hulle, M.M. (2002). Neural network implementations of independent component analysis. 2002 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (Martigny, Valais, Switzerland, September 4-6, 2002), pp. 505-514.

Pauwels, K., Gautama, T., Van Hulle, M.M. and Mandic, D.P. (2002). Towards model-independent mode detection and characterisation of very long biomedical time series. Proc. 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing (RASC2002) (Nottingham (GB), 12-13 December 2002), pp. 77-78.

Sabatini, S.P., Solari, F. and Bisio, G.M. (2002).Detection of First-order Elementary Components in Noisy Optic Flow Fields Through Context Sensitive Recurrent Filters at "4th Workshop on Dynamic Perception", Bochum, 14-15 Nov.

Sabatini, S.P., Solari, F., Andreani, G., Bartolozzi, C. and Bisio, G.M. (2002).A hierarchical model of complex cells in visual cortex for the binocular perception of motion-in-depth . In: T. G. Dietterich and S. Becker and Z. Ghahramani (eds), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14, MIT Press.

Van Hulle, M.M. (2002). Joint entropy maximization in kernel-based topographic maps. Neural Computation, 14(8), 1887-1906.

Van Hulle, M.M. (2002). Kernel-based topographic map formation achieved with an information-theoretic approach. (invited paper).Neural Networks, 15(8-9), 1029-1039.

Van Hulle, M.M. (2002). Kernel-based topographic map formation achieved with normalized Gaussian competition. 2002 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (Martigny, Valais, Switzerland, September 4-6, 2002), pp. 169-178.

Van Hulle, M.M. (2002). Kernel-based topographic map formation by local density modeling. Neural Computation, 14(7), 1561-1573.