Fast, Multi-Scale Image Processing on a Square Spiral Framework

Abstract

Efficient processing of digital images is a key consideration in many machine vision tasks. Traditional image processing approaches often struggle to meet this demand, particularly at the initial low-level of processing image pixels. To overcome this, we propose a spiral based processing approach which takes inspiration from the asymmetric lattice of interlocking cells found in the human visual system. Here we demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed spiral approach for multi-scale feature extraction. This is complemented by a biologically inspired image acquisition process which is used to capture nine image frames at different spatial locations. The results demonstrate that the biologically inspired spiral approach offers a faster alternative to corresponding traditional image processing approaches.