Towards an Active Visual Observer

We present a binocular active vision system that can attend to and fixate a moving target. Our system has an open and expandable design and it forms the first steps of a long term e#ort towards developing an active observer using vision to interact with the environment, in particular capable of figure-ground segmentation. We also present partial real-time implementations of this system and show their performance in real-world situations together with motor control. In pursuit we particularly focus on occlusions of other targets, both stationary and moving, and integrate three cues, egomotion, target motion and target disparity, to obtain an overall robust behavior