How Far Can a 1-Pixel Camera Go? Solving Vision Tasks Using Photoreceptors and Computationally Designed Visual Morphology

Andrei Atanov, Jiawei Fu, Rishubh Singh, Isabella Yu, Andrew Spielberg, Amir Zamir

Abstract: A de facto standard approach in solving computer vision tasks is to use a common high-resolution camera and choose its placement on an agent based on human intuition. On the other hand, extremely simple and well-designed visual sensors found throughout nature allow many organisms to exhibit diverse, complex behaviors. In this work, motivated by these examples, we raise the following questions: