A computational study of the Lobula Plate Tangential Cells of flies for bio-inspired optical flow encoding and self-motion estimation

Thesis

When driving a car, determining whether an object is moving toward or away from us is crucial. Similarly, motion perception provides essential visual cues that sighted animals rely on extensively for their survival. The image moving across an observer’s retina results from a combination of motion patterns generated by either the observed scene or the observer’s motion. The structured pattern of apparent displacement forming this visual input is known as Optical Flow.

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Authors: Leroy, A

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-6rdvaywrg
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: LPTC; lobula plate; lobula plate tangential cell; bio-inspired; tangential cell
• Subjects: Optical detectors; Natural computation