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Esther Antúnez1, Antonio J Palomino, Rebeca Marfil

  • 1Grupo ISIS, Departamento Tecnología Electrónica, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain. eantunez@uma.es

Cognitive Processing
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This study introduces an artificial attention model for mobile robot navigation, enhancing computational efficiency by focusing on visual landmarks. It employs bottom-up and top-down saliency maps for object-level attention and landmark re-detection.

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