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One of the basic tasks assigned to the attentional mechanism is to decide which location in the visual field we must pay attention first. An object containing a distinctive feature can attract attention in a bottom-up way. By comparing one object with the others present in the scene, bottom-up conspicuity features are used to guide attention to the most different object. Top-down hints are based on the previous knowledge about the objects or on which features are important to locate them and also have a large influence on the attended locations. Inspired on the mechanisms of human visual attention we developed a new methodology to integrate bottom-up and top-down information by using fuzzy net containing three fuzzy subsystems. The first bottom-up subsystem allow us to combine features and infer with great flexibility some intuitive decision rules based on the visual perception principles such as the Gestalt laws. The second top-down subsystem combines different features according to the relevance of them in different tasks. Finally, the last subsystem integrates the information of the previous systems and gives a general salience index. The new methodology was tested in geometrical objects considering the features that attracts attention to human beings.

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Abstract. During machining process the temperature knowledge in the contact area between the workpiece and the tool is considered one of the most important factors in the monitoring of machining conditions of high performance. It can establish a relationship between temperature and the waste of the cutting tool during machining process by extracting characteristics of infrared images. This work proposes the monitoring of the temperature using an artificial vision system composed by an infrared camera, a frame grabber and a microcomputer.

Textile manufacture occupies a prominent place in the national economy. Because of its importance researches have been made on the development of new materials, equipment and methods used in the production process. The cutting of textiles starts in the basic stage, to be followed by the process of the making of clothes and other articles. In the hot cutting of fabric, one of the variables of great importance in the control of the process is the contact temperature between the tool and the fabric. This work presents a technique for the measurement of the temperature based on the processing of infrared images. With this purpose, it was developed a system which is composed of an infrared camera, a framegrabber PC board and a software which analyses the punctual temperature in the cut area enabling the operator to achieve the necessary control of other variables involved in the process