Complex Visual Behavior with Simple Brains: Co-Evolutionary Active Vision and Feature Selection

Brains are characterized by limited bandwidth and computational resources. At any point in time, we can focus our attention only to a limited set of features or objects. One of the most remarkable –and often neglected– differences between machine vision and biological vision is that computers are often asked to process an entire image in one shot and produce an immediate answer whereas animals are free to explore the image over time searching for features and dynamically integrating information over time.