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abstract: "For the purposes of manipulation, we would like to know what parts of the environment are physically coherent ensembles - that is, which parts will move together, and which are more or less independent. It takes a great deal of experience before this judgement can be made from purely visual information. This paper develops active strategies for acquiring that experience through experimental manipulation, using tight correlations between arm motion and optic flow to detect both the arm itself and the boundaries of objects with which it comes into contact. We argue that following causal chains of events out from the robot's body into the environment allows for a very natural developmental progression of visual competence, and relate this idea to results in neuroscience."
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confdates: 'August 10-11, 2002'
conference: 'Second International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems'
confloc: 'Edinburgh, Scotland'
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- family: Metta
given: Giorgio
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- family: Fitzpatrick
given: Paul
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date: 2002
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editors_name:
- family: Prince
given: Christopher G.
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- family: Demiris
given: Yiannis
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- family: Marom
given: Yuval
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- family: Kozima
given: Hideki
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- family: Balkenius
given: Christian
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keywords: 'manipulation, active vision, motion segmentation, optic flow, visual competence, neuroscience, robotics'
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rev_number: 12
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status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:45:28
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- comp-sci-mach-vis
- comp-sci-art-intel
- comp-sci-robot
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title: Better Vision Through Manipulation
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volume: 94