A reconstruction method of projection image on worker honeybees' compound eye

Visual perception by insect compound eyes is of interest in visual science for revealing neuronal principals of vision, and applying their small and simple structures to artificial vision systems, In order to investigate how animal behavior is related to sensory stimuli, it is important to take into account real input signals to the nervous system. In the case of an insect with compound eyes, sceneries projected onto compound eye are the basic signals for visual information processing. In this paper, a method to reconstruct the projected images on the honeybee compound eyes is presented. This method estimates the illuminance change of a single ommatidium surface. It may be applied to analyze the correspondence between input images and retinal responses. (C) 2002 Published by Elsevier Science.