Image segmentation techniques and their use in artificial life robot implementation

Abstract

In this article we give a brief description of the properties of human and robot vision systems. We focus on the part of vision processing that is connected with the image segmentation problem, and especially with texturebased segmentation. Such vision processing is necessary for robust indoor mobile robot navigation and for other related tasks, including line-following, and object detection and recognition. We examine the details of a texture segmentation technique based on the Gabor filtering method.