Julian Eggert, Sven Rebhan, Edgar Körner, "First steps towards an intentional vision system", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS, 2007.

Contrary to many standard vision systems which proceed in a cascaded feedforward manner, imposing a fixed order in the sequence of visual operations like detection preceding segmentation and classification, we develop here the idea of a vision system that flexibly controls the order and accessibility of visual processes during operation. Vision is hereby understood as the dynamic process of adaptation of visual parameters and modules as a function of underlying goals or intentions. This perspective requires a specific architectural organization, since vision is then a continuous balance between the sensory stimulation and internally generated information. In this paper we present the concept and the necessary main ingredients and show first steps towards the implementation of a real-time intentional vision system.