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Unifying Perspectives in Computational and Robot Vision

  • Demonstrates state of the art in applying computer vision in robotics
  • Discusses contrasting viewpoints of computer vision vs robotics
  • Provides current and future challenges discussed from research perspective
  • Covers vision considered as a component of an action generating intelligent system

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE, volume 8)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Recent Trends in Computational and Robot Vision

    • Ville Kyrki, Danica Kragic
    Pages 1-10
  3. People Detection Using Multiple Sensors on a Mobile Robot

    • Zoran Zivkovic, Ben Kröse
    Pages 25-39
  4. Perceiving Objects and Movements to Generate Actions on a Humanoid Robot

    • Tamim Asfour, Kai Welke, Aleš Ude, Pedram Azad, Rüdiger Dillmann
    Pages 41-55
  5. Pose Estimation and Feature Tracking for Robot Assisted Surgery with Medical Imaging

    • Christophe Doignon, Florent Nageotte, Benjamin Maurin, Alexandre Krupa
    Pages 79-101
  6. A Sliding Window Filter for Incremental SLAM

    • Gabe Sibley, Larry Matthies, Gaurav Sukhatme
    Pages 103-112
  7. Topological and Metric Robot Localization through Computer Vision Techniques

    • A. C. Murillo, J. J. Guerrero, C. Saguüés
    Pages 113-128
  8. More Vision for SLAM

    • Simon Lacroix, Thomas Lemaire, Cyrille Berger
    Pages 129-147
  9. Maps, Objects and Contexts for Robots

    • James J. Little, Tristram Southey
    Pages 149-161
  10. Vision-Based Navigation Strategies

    • Darius Burschka
    Pages 163-185
  11. Image-Based Visual Servoing with Extra Task Related Constraints in a General Framework for Sensor-Based Robot Systems

    • Ruben Smits, Duccio Fioravanti, Tinne De Laet, Benedetto Allotta, Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 187-204
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 205-206

About this book

Currently there is a gap between the research conducted in computer vision and robotics communities. There are many characteristics in common in computer vision research and vision research in robotics. Despite having these common interests, however, “pure” computer vision has seen significant theoretical and methodological advances during the last decade which many of the robotics researchers are not fully aware of. On the other hand, the manipulation and control capabilities of robots as well as the range of application areas have developed greatly. In robotics, vision can not be considered an isolated component, but it is instead a part of a system resulting in an action. Thus, in robotics the vision research must include consideration of the control of the system, in other words, the entire perception-action loop. This requires that a holistic system approach is useful and could provide significant advances in this application domain. Assembled here is a collection of some of the state of the art methods that are using computer vision and machine learning techniques and apply them in robotic applications.

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From the reviews:

"‘From Features to Actions: Unifying Perspectives in Computational and Robot Vision’ was a workshop organized by the editors … . This book is a collection of interesting research papers presented at that workshop. … this book provides an overview of the latest research on vision algorithms, including their use and evaluation with robotic applications. … I believe that this book will be a valuable resource for those interested in robotic vision research." (George K. Adam, ACM Computing Reviews, December, 2008)

Editors and Affiliations

  • CSC – CAS/ CVAP, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

    Danica Kragic

  • Department of Information Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

    Ville Kyrki

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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