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Here, we propose to offload the recognition problem onto a separate image processing system that then provides the user with just the essential information about the location of objects in the surrounding environment. Specifically, we show that a bio-inspired image processing algorithm (SpikeNet) can not only robustly, precisely, and rapidly recognize and locate key objects in the image, but also in space if the objects are in a stereoscopic field of view. In addition, the bio-inspired algorithm allows real-time calculation of optic flow. 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