Active Perception

by Aloimonos; Yiannis

• ISBN13: 9780805812909
• ISBN10: 0805812903
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-10-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

This book defines the emerging field of Active Perception which calls for studying perception coupled with action. It is devoted to technical problems related to the design and analysis of intelligent systems possessing perception such as the existing biological organisms and the "seeing" machines of the future. Since the appearance of the first technical results on active vision, researchers began to realize that perception -- and intelligence in general -- is not transcendental and disembodied. It is becoming clear that in the effort to build intelligent visual systems, consideration must be given to the fact that perception is intimately related to the physiology of the perceiver and the tasks that it performs. This viewpoint -- known as Purposive, Qualitative, or Animate Vision -- is the natural evolution of the principles of Active Vision. The seven chapters in this volume present various aspects of active perception, ranging from general principles and methodological matters to technical issues related to navigation, manipulation, recognition, learning, planning, reasoning, and topics related to the neurophysiology of intelligent systems.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Introduction Active Vision Revisited	p. 1
Abstract	p. 1
Active Vision as a Methodology	p. 19
Introduction	p. 19
References	p. 44
Conclusions	p. 44
Designing Visual Systems: Purposive Navigation	p. 47
Introduction and Motivation	p. 48
Conclusions	p. 99
References	p. 100
Navigational Preliminaries	p. 103
Introduction	p. 104
Conclusions	p. 144
References	p. 147
Vision During Action	p. 151
Introduction	p. 151
References	p. 185
Conclusions	p. 185
Introduction	p. 191
Visual Servoing from 2-D Image Cues	p. 191
References	p. 224
References	p. 224
Computational Modelling of Hand--Eye Coordination	p. 227
Introduction	p. 227
References	p. 243
Principles of Animate Vision	p. 245
Abstract	p. 245
Conclusions	p. 277
References	p. 278
Subject Index	p. 283
Author Index	p. 287
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