Information processing at its limits: from the dimmest habitats to the smallest sizes

在尺寸和环境光线的限制下确保最佳的信息处理是技术系统面临的一个挑战，但动物已经优雅地解决了这个问题。对于各种大小的动物来说，在白天和黑夜中航行的挑战是相似的。本项目旨在进行比较分析，以确定尺寸和光线对视觉导航信息处理能力的影响。该项目的成果将揭示所需的行为和生理适应以及在最昏暗的栖息地和最小尺寸下航行的相关成本。识别这种用于鲁棒导航的最佳生物解决方案将与图像处理，计算机视觉和机器人技术相关。

Ensuring optimal information processing at the limits of size and ambient light is a challenge for technical systems, but has been elegantly solved by animals. The challenge of navigation is similar for animals of all sizes and in both day and night. This project aims to conduct a comparative analysis to identify the consequence of size and light on the information processing capacities for visual navigation. Outcomes of this project will reveal the behavioural and physiological adaptations needed and the costs associated with navigating in the dimmest of habitats and at the smallest of sizes. Identifying such optimal biological solutions for robust navigation will be relevant for image processing, computer vision and robotics.