aver

active vision models, built with the Nengo neural simulator.

installation

$ pip install aver

about

background

The phrase "active vision" is meant to refer to any model of vision that incorporates eye movements. For background, please see:

• Findlay, John M., and Iain D. Gilchrist. Active vision: The psychology of looking and seeing. No. 37. Oxford University Press, 2003. https://www.worldcat.org/title/active-vision-the-psychology-of-looking-and-seeing/
• Hulleman, J., & Olivers, C. (2017). The impending demise of the item in visual search. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, E132. doi:10.1017/S0140525X15002794 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/impending-demise-of-the-item-in-visual-search/263B1FA1A593ED41B5CF644784D94A46
• Yang, Scott Cheng-Hsin, Daniel M. Wolpert, and Mate Lengyel. "Theoretical perspectives on active sensing." Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 11 (2016): 100-108. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6116896/

For a brief introduction to active vision models, and how they relate to the typical tasks used to investigate visual search in the laboratory, please see this notebook. The notebook contains results from a replication of an active vision-type model described in the Hulleman and Olivers commentary cited above.

license

BSD

name

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