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Over the past 40 years, neurobiology and computational neuroscience has proved that deeper understanding of visual processes in humans and non-human primates can lead to important advancements in computational perception theories and systems. One of the main difficulties that arises when designing automatic vision systems is developing a mechanism that can recognize - or simply find - an object when faced with all the possible variations that may occur in a natural scene, with the ease of the primate visual system. The area of the brain in primates that is dedicated at analyzing visual information is the visual cortex. The visual cortex performs a wide variety of complex tasks by means of simple operations. These seemingly simple operations are applied to several layers of neurons organized into a hierarchy, the layers representing increasingly complex, abstract intermediate processing stages. In this Research Topic we propose to bring together current efforts in neurophysiology and computer vision in order 1) To understand how the visual cortex encodes an object from a starting point where neurons respond to lines, bars or edges to the representation of an object at the top of the hierarchy that is invariant to illumination, size, location, viewpoint, rotation and robust to occlusions and clutter; and 2) How the design of automatic vision systems benefit from that knowledge to get closer to human accuracy, efficiency and robustness to variations.

Visual Cortex --- Computational neuroscence --- Computer Vision --- Neuronal modeling --- object recognition --- shape --- Attention --- Neuromorphic

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This work presents a new approach for estimating 3D human poses based on monocular camera information only. For this, the Implicit Shape Model is augmented by new voting strategies that allow to localize 2D anatomical landmarks in the image. The actual 3D pose estimation is then formulated as a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) where projected 3D pose hypotheses are compared with the generated landmark vote distributions.

Szenenverstehen, Bildverarbeitung, Menschliche Posenschätzung, AktionserkennungScene understanding, Computer vision, Human pose estimation, action recognition

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The articles in this Research Topic provide a state-of-the-art overview of the current progress in integrating computational and empirical research on visual object recognition. Developments in this exciting multidisciplinary field have recently gained momentum: High performance computing enabled breakthroughs in computer vision and computational neuroscience. In parallel, innovative machine learning applications have recently become available for datamining the large-scale, high resolution brain data acquired with (ultra-high field) fMRI and dense multi-unit recordings. Finally, new techniques to integrate such rich simulated and empirical datasets for direct model testing could aid the development of a comprehensive brain model. We hope that this Research Topic contributes to these encouraging advances and inspires future research avenues in computational and empirical neuroscience.

object recognition --- computational neuroscience --- Computer Vision --- fMRI --- Neurophysiology --- Feature representation --- ventral visual pathway --- invariance --- neural networks --- multimodal data integration

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Extended object tracking deals with estimating the shape and pose of an object based on noisy point measurements. This task is not straightforward, as we may be faced with scarce low-quality measurements, little a priori information, or we may be unable to observe the entire target. This work aims to address these challenges by incorporating ideas from active contours and exploiting information from negative measurements, which tell us where the target cannot be.

Tracking, Ausgedehnte Objekte, Negative Information, Aktive Modelle, Bilddatenverarbeitung, Tracking, Extended Objects, Negative Information, Active Models, Computer Vision

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This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2020, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in September 2020. The 60 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. The were organized in topical sections on haptic science, haptic technology, and haptic applications. This year's focus is on accessibility.

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction --- Robotics --- Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) --- Image Processing and Computer Vision --- Computer and Information Systems Applications --- Computer Vision --- communication systems --- computer networks --- data communication systems --- display devices --- engineering --- haptic devices --- haptic interfaces --- human engineering --- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) --- mobile computing --- network protocols --- robotics --- signal processing --- telecommunication networks --- user interfaces --- virtual reality --- wireless telecommunication systems --- User interface design & usability --- Artificial intelligence --- Expert systems / knowledge-based systems --- Information retrieval --- Internet searching --- Image processing --- Computer vision