ArticleInterface focus2018
Rotation invariant visual processing for spatial memory in insects.
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- Wavelet-based visual compass.PloS one · 2026Article
- A Vector-Based Computational Model of Multimodal Insect Learning Walks.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Ant visual route navigation: How the fine details of behaviour promote successful route performance and convergence.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Lateralised memory networks may explain the use of higher-order visual features in navigating insects.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- I2Bot: an open-source tool for multi-modal and embodied simulation of insect navigation.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Visual navigation: properties, acquisition and use of views.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Review
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- Visually guided homing of bumblebees in ambiguous situations: A behavioural and modelling study.PLoS computational biology · 2020Article
- A decentralised neural model explaining optimal integration of navigational strategies in insects.eLife · 2020Article
- Opponent processes in visual memories: A model of attraction and repulsion in navigating insects' mushroom bodies.PLoS computational biology · 2020Article
- The Critical Role of Head Movements for Spatial Representation During Bumblebees Learning Flight.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Visual memory is crucial to navigation in many animals, including insects. Here, we focus on the problem of visual homing, that is, using comparison of the view at a current location with a view stored at the home location to control movement towards home by a novel shortcut. Insects show several visual specializations that appear advantageous for this task, including almost panoramic field of view and ultraviolet light sensitivity, which enhances the salience of the skyline. We discuss several proposals for subsequent processing of the image to obtain the required motion information, focusing on how each might deal with the problem of yaw rotation of the current view relative to the home view. Possible solutions include tagging of views with information from the celestial compass system, using multiple views pointing towards home, or rotation invariant encoding of the view. We illustrate briefly how a well-known shape description method from computer vision, Zernike moments, could provide a compact and rotation invariant representation of sky shapes to enhance visual homing. We discuss the biological plausibility of this solution, and also a fourth strategy, based on observed behaviour of insects, that involves transfer of information from visual memory matching to the compass system.
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