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Foveation in the Era of Deep Learning

3 Dec 2023arXiv:2312.01450archive 2025-07-28

George Killick, Paul Henderson, Paul Siebert, Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa

In this paper, we tackle the challenge of actively attending to visual scenes using a foveated sensor. We introduce an end-to-end differentiable foveated active vision architecture that leverages a graph convolutional network to process foveated images, and a simple yet effective formulation for foveated image sampling. Our model learns to iteratively attend to regions of the image relevant for classification. We conduct detailed experiments on a variety of image datasets, comparing the performance of our method with previous approaches to foveated vision while measuring how the impact of different choices, such as the degree of foveation, and the number of fixations the network performs, affect object recognition performance. We find that our model outperforms a state-of-the-art CNN and foveated vision architectures of comparable parameters and a given pixel or computation budget

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