- Dates: 21 December 2009 - 2 July 2010
- Funder: EPSRC (EP/H500189/1)
- Funding amount: £17,194.
Summary
Understanding how neurobiological systems can process sensory information rapidly is an area of research which would benefit from exploitation. At Surrey, research into sensory systems has focused on the importance of low-level processing.
For example, the superior colliculus is a small structure in the midbrain of humans that automatically orients our eyes to a movement, sound or touch that occurs around us. This automatic orientation is an important function that allows us to prioritise resources sub-consciously.
Research into these low-level structures has taken place at Surrey as a result of an EPSRC funded workshop. The workshop brought together an interdisciplinary team to share expertise on how to combine sensory stimuli. The knowledge and collaborators gained from this workshop resulted in models of low-level sensory structures that have proven effective. The novelty of the developed technique is its ability to adapt its behaviour in response to arbitrary target stimuli. Nobody else has achieved this for multi-sensory inputs.
Objectives
In this project, we propose to apply Surrey’s model of adaptive low-level sensory processing to imagery systems from Waterfall Solutions. With a proof-of-concept, we hope to demonstrate that Surrey’s adaptive techniques can be applied to real-world tasks.
Impacts
The key outcome is to evaluate whether Surrey’s technique can be exploited. This will be achieved through the development of a proof-of-concept. Further exploitation will be evaluated during the project.
