64x48 grayscale, no depth: a fruit fly looming-detector pipeline vs a small CNN for obstacle avoidance
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Two controllers steer a simulated drone through 120 m corridors of poles and boxes, using only a 64x48 grayscale frame per step. No depth and no scene state. One is a hand-built looming detector based on the fruit fly's Giant Fiber escape model (Ache et al. 2019, Current Biology). The other is a ~3…
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64x48 grayscale, no depth: a fruit fly looming-detector pipeline vs a small CNN for obstacle avoidance
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