Robot Vision

1. Front Matter

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2. Motion Analysis

   1. Dynamic Multiresolution Optical Flow Computation

      • Naoya Ohnishi, Yusuke Kameda, Atsushi Imiya, Leo Dorst, Reinhard Klette

      Pages 1-15

   2. Particle-Based Belief Propagation for Structure from Motion and Dense Stereo Vision with Unknown Camera Constraints

      • Hoang Trinh, David McAllester

      Pages 16-28

3. Stereo Vision

   1. Integrating Disparity Images by Incorporating Disparity Rate

      • Tobi Vaudrey, Hernán Badino, Stefan Gehrig

      Pages 29-42

   2. Towards Optimal Stereo Analysis of Image Sequences

      • Uwe Franke, Stefan Gehrig, Hernán Badino, Clemens Rabe

      Pages 43-58

   3. Fast Line-Segment Extraction for Semi-dense Stereo Matching

      • Brian McKinnon, Jacky Baltes

      Pages 59-71

   4. High Resolution Stereo in Real Time

      • Hani Akeila, John Morris

      Pages 72-84

4. Robot Vision

   1. Stochastically Optimal Epipole Estimation in Omnidirectional Images with Geometric Algebra

      • Christian Gebken, Gerald Sommer

      Pages 85-97

   2. Modeling and Tracking Line-Constrained Mechanical Systems

      • B. Rosenhahn, T. Brox, D. Cremers, H. -P. Seidel

      Pages 98-110

   3. Stereo Vision Local Map Alignment for Robot Environment Mapping

      • David Aldavert, Ricardo Toledo

      Pages 111-124

   4. Markerless Augmented Reality for Robotic Helicoptor Applications

      • Ian Yen-Hung Chen, Bruce MacDonald, Burkhard Wünsche

      Pages 125-138

   5. Facial Expression Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction – A Prototype

      • Matthias Wimmer, Bruce A. MacDonald, Dinuka Jayamuni, Arpit Yadav

      Pages 139-152

5. Computer Vision

   1. Iterative Low Complexity Factorization for Projective Reconstruction

      • Hanno Ackermann, Kenichi Kanatani

      Pages 153-164

   2. Accurate Image Matching in Scenes Including Repetitive Patterns

      • Sunao Kamiya, Yasushi Kanazawa

      Pages 165-176

   3. Camera Self-calibration under the Constraint of Distant Plane

      • Guanghui Wang, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Wei Zhang

      Pages 177-188

6. Visual Inspection

   1. An Approximate Algorithm for Solving the Watchman Route Problem

      • Fajie Li, Reinhard Klette

      Pages 189-206

   2. Bird’s-Eye View Vision System for Vehicle Surrounding Monitoring

      • Yu-Chih Liu, Kai-Ying Lin, Yong-Sheng Chen

      Pages 207-218

   3. Road-Signs Recognition System for Intelligent Vehicles

      • Bogusław Cyganek

      Pages 219-233

   4. Situation Analysis and Atypical Event Detection with Multiple Cameras and Multi-Object Tracking

      • Ralf Reulke, Frederik Meysel, Sascha Bauer

      Pages 234-247

7. Urban Vision

   1. Team AnnieWAY’s Autonomous System

      • Christoph Stiller, Sören Kammel, Benjamin Pitzer, Julius Ziegler, Moritz Werling, Tobias Gindele et al.

      Pages 248-259

In 1986, B.K.P. Horn published a book entitled Robot Vision, which actually discussed a wider ?eld of subjects, basically addressing the ?eld of computer vision, but introducing “robot vision” as a technical term. Since then, the - teraction between computer vision and research on mobile systems (often called “robots”, e.g., in an industrial context, but also including vehicles, such as cars, wheelchairs, tower cranes, and so forth) established a diverse area of research, today known as robot vision. Robot vision (or, more general, robotics) is a fast-growing discipline, already taught as a dedicated teaching program at university level. The term “robot vision” addresses any autonomous behavior of a technical system supported by visual sensoric information. While robot vision focusses on the vision process, visual robotics is more directed toward control and automatization. In practice, however, both ?elds strongly interact. Robot Vision 2008 was the second international workshop, counting a 2001 workshop with identical name as the ?rst in this series. Both workshops were organized in close cooperation between researchers from New Zealand and Germany, and took place at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Participants of the 2008 workshop came from Europe, USA, South America, the Middle East, the Far East, Australia, and of course from New Zealand.

• 3D vision
• Stereo
• augmented reality
• autonomous robots
• belief propagation
• camera calibration
• computational geometry
• computer
• computer vision
• differential geometry
• firewire
• integral image
• robot
• robot vision
• stereo vision

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