Olague and Puente have developed a system that will equip robots with 3D vision. They have designed this stereoscopic computer vision system by imitating honeybee’s foraging methods. The system makes computer to collect 3D information by using two cameras that evaluate the vision captured from diverse angles.
The system works as it conveys explorer bees to diverse elements of a picture. When these find any interesting area, the system turns it into a 3D, based on all bees’ movements.
With the help of 8000 virtual explorer bees and 32,000 virtual harvesters Olague and Puente performed the testing. And this project won award for best paper at the 8th European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing in Budapest, Hungary, in April 2006.
Via: newscientisttech
