Brain Inspired Navigation

Category: Cognitive Navigation

Technology: Use or lose our navigation skills

Roger McKinlay 30 March 2016  in Nature News

Automatic wayfinding is eroding natural abilities, warns Roger McKinlay. 

Read more info on the Nature site.  Nature 531, 573–575 (31 March 2016) doi:10.1038/531573a

 

@SWNS A lorry wedged between houses in Bruton, …

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OCamCalib: Omnidirectional Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab

Author: Davide Scaramuzza  For catadioptric and fisheye cameras up to 195 degrees.

The OcamCalib Toolbox for Matlab allows the user (also inexpert users) to calibrate any central omnidirectional camera, that is, any panoramic camera having a single effective viewpoint (see …

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Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab

Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab @ Dr. Jean-Yves Bouguet

This is a release of a Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab® with a complete documentation. This document may also be used as a tutorial on camera calibration since it includes …

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【Latest Papers】Cognitive Navigation by Neuro-Inspired Localization, Mapping and Episodic Memory

Abstract One of the important topics in the study of robotic cognition is to enable robot to perceive, plan and react to situations in a real-world environment. We present a novel angle on this subject, by integrating active navigation with …

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Nature Neuroscience Nov. 2017 Issue: Focus on Spatial Cognition

From Nature Neuroscience  Oct. 31 2017

Navigation is the ability to estimate one’s own position and to track and plan one’s own path in physical space, be it on land, on sea, in the air or even in space. …

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Bat brain signals illuminate navigation in the dark

Brief content From ScienceNews   BY  AMBER DANCE 12:30PM, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Neuroscientist Nachum Ulanovsky and his colleagues of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, studying several different species of bats, are investigating how the flying mammals perceive …

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Definitions of Cognition & Cognitive Systems

From the euCognition

The following definitions were contributed by members of euCognition in response to a questionnaire. The definitions are listed in the order in which they were submitted.

Cognition is the ability to relate perception and action in a …

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