A Miniature Biological Eagle-Eye Vision System for Small Target Detection

TL;DR

This paper presents a miniature vision system inspired by eagle-eye physiology, combining hardware and visual attention mechanisms to effectively detect small targets with high accuracy and adaptability.

Contribution

It introduces a novel biological-inspired vision system with cooperative multi-focus cameras for improved small target detection.

Findings

Accurately detects small targets in experiments

Demonstrates strong adaptive ability

Integrates biological inspiration with hardware design

Abstract

Small target detection is known to be a challenging problem. Inspired by the structural characteristics and physiological mechanism of eagle-eye, a miniature vision system is designed for small target detection in this paper. First, a hardware platform is established, which consists of a pan-tilt, a short-focus camera and a long-focus camera. Then, based on the visual attention mechanism of eagle-eye, the cameras with different focal lengths are controlled cooperatively to achieve small target detection. Experimental results show that the designed biological eagle-eye vision system can accurately detect small targets, which has a strong adaptive ability.