US-United Kingdom Cooperative Research: Optics and Movementsof Stomatoped Crustacean Eyes

美英合作研究：口甲壳动物眼睛的光学和运动

• 批准号: 8814562
• 负责人: Thomas Cronin
• 金额: $ 1.35万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-01-01 至 1990-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8814562&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; United; Kingdom; Cooperative; Research

This award will support collaborative research between Dr. Thomas Cronin, University of Maryland Baltimore County and Dr. Michael Land, University of Sussex, England. The research will focus on the optics and movements of stomatoped crustacean eyes. Stomatopod crustaceans have unusual and specialized visual systems, characterized by two unique features. First, each eye is triple in organization - three regions of one eye view the same point in space. This design may be used for distance perception and hue discrimination; it also may provide polarization vision and an unusual type of form vision. The other characteristic feature of stomatopod vision is that the eyes scan large visual fields, but do so without bilateral coordination. The proposed study will examine the internal filters and visual pigments of the various eye regions using microspectrophotometry, and work out their contributions to spectral sensitivity. Using interference microscopy, the investigators will learn how stomatopods form images on their retinas. Finally, the investigators will learn how the investigators will use a video computer interfacing method developed by Dr. Land to analyze stomatopod eye movements during scanning, tracking, fixation, and optokinesis. These studies will not only assist the two major laboratories working on stomatopod vision to coordinate their research, but also are expected to have results of general significance for vision science and for the application of artificial intelligence to computer/robotic vision.

该奖项将支持托马斯博士与 克罗宁，马里兰州巴尔的摩县大学和迈克尔博士 英国苏塞克斯大学土地。 研究将集中在 口足甲壳动物眼睛的视觉和运动。 口足类甲壳动物有着不寻常的和专门的视觉 系统，具有两个独特的特点。 首先，每只眼睛都是 三重组织-一只眼睛的三个区域看到相同的东西 空间中的点。 这种设计可用于距离感知 和色调辨别;它还可以提供偏振视觉 和一种不寻常的形式视觉。 所述其它特征 口足类视觉的特征是眼睛扫描大的视觉 在没有双边协调的情况下这样做。 拟议 这项研究将检查视网膜的内部过滤器和视色素， 各种眼睛区域使用显微分光光度计，并制定出 它们对光谱灵敏度的贡献。 使用干扰 通过显微镜，研究人员将了解口足类动物的形成 视网膜上的图像。 最后，调查人员将了解到 调查人员将如何使用视频计算机接口方法 由兰德博士开发，用于分析口足类动物在 扫描、跟踪、注视和视动。 这些研究将 不仅帮助两个主要的实验室研究口足类动物， 愿景，以协调他们的研究，但也有望有 结果的视觉科学和一般意义的 人工智能在计算机/机器人视觉中的应用。