A Holarchical Approach to Robot Vision
David S. G. Vernon · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1986
This paper describes initial progess toward the development of a holarchical robot vision system. The holarchical concept is an organisational philosophy which is borrowed from system sciences and is concerned with the organisation of interacting complex systems. The major levels of this holarchy correspond to the peripheral, attentional, and cognitive visual processes. The approach is exemplified by describing the development of a contour-following boundary-based object recognition vision system. The extension of the holarchy to incorporate further visual cues is considered.