A Few Steps Towards 3D Active Vision

✍ Scribed by Professor Thierry Viéville (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Series: Springer Series in Information Sciences 33
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A Few Steps Towards 3D Active Vision describes several modules that can be used to perform 3D vision. A specific problem in the field of active vision is analyzed, namely how suitable is it to explicitly use 3D visual cues in a reactive visual task? The author has collected a set of studies on this subject and has used these experimental and theoretical developments to propose a synthetic view on the problem, completed by some specific experiments. With this book scientists and graduate students will have a complete set of methods, algorithms, and experiments to introduce 3D visual cues in active visual perception mechanisms such as autocalibration of visual sensors on robotic heads and mobile robots. Analogies with biological visual systems provide an easy introduction to this subject.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
From 2D to 3D Active Vision....Pages 1-21
3D Active Vision on a Robotic Head....Pages 23-53
Auto-Calibration of a Robotic Head....Pages 55-84
Inertial Cues in an Active Visual System....Pages 85-125
Retinal Motion as a Cue for Active Vision....Pages 127-166
Uncalibrated Motion of Points and Lines....Pages 167-216
Conclusion....Pages 217-222
Back Matter....Pages 223-241

✦ Subjects

Electrical Engineering;Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics;Numerical and Computational Physics;Pattern Recognition