A biologically motivated system for unconstrained online learning of visual objects

  • Authors:
  • Heiko Wersing;Stephan Kirstein;Michael Götting;Holger Brandl;Mark Dunn;Inna Mikhailova;Christian Goerick;Jochen Steil;Helge Ritter;Edgar Körner

  • Affiliations:
  • Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany;Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany;Neuroinformatics Group, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany;Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany;Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany;Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany;Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany;Neuroinformatics Group, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany;Neuroinformatics Group, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany;Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICANN'06 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Artificial Neural Networks - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a biologically motivated system for object recognition that is capable of online learning of several objects based on interaction with a human teacher. The training is unconstrained in the sense that arbitrary objects can be freely presented in front of a stereo camera system and labeled by speech input. The architecture unites biological principles such as appearance-based representation in topographical feature detection hierarchies and context-driven transfer between different levels of object memory. The learning is fully online and thus avoids an artificial separation of the interaction into training and test phases.