Establishing the Information Theoretical Approach to Active Sensing and Recognition

我们实现了本研究项目的主要目标，即为主动传感系统建立信息论方法的方法论。有了这一成果，我们还建立了对人类视觉感知活动的控制机制的分析。我们考虑了人类传感器如何制定策略，以获得最有效的信息。主要的关键是“互信息”，它估计信息源点和其目的地之间的信息量。基于这一概念，我们完成了一种新的主动感知系统描述框架。

We achieved the main object of this research project to establish a methodology of information theoretical approach for active sensing systems. With this achievement, we have also established an analysis of mechanisms of control in human visual sensing activities. We considered how our human sensors work out their strategy to obtain most effective information. The main key was the"mutual information", which estimates the amount of information flow between an information source point and its destination. Based on this notion, we accomplished a new framework of description for active sensing systems.