Spatial Cognition of Humans and Brain-inspired Artificial Agents

Abstract

Present vision systems primarily operate on still images or an image sequence but hardly consider continuous perception across actions. If sensors are attached to the body of a human-like agent who interacts with the environment, several questions arise about how to update the reference systems with each action. In our European research project “Spatial Cognition” we address this topic by a combination of experimental and computational work which should finally merge into a large-scale model of human-like space perception and spatial memory being tested on a humanoid agent in virtual reality.