Download or read book Generic Object Recognition Using Form and Function written by Louise Stark and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-02-29 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides a detailed record of the “GRUFF” research project. The goal of the GRUFF project is to develop techniques for robotic vision systems to recognize objects by reasoning about their intended function rather than matching to a pre-defined database of 2-D object appearances or 3-D object shapes. The contributions of this work are: a demonstration of the feasibility of the “form and function” approach to reasoning about 3-D shapes; a demonstration of the concept of using a small number of knowledge primitives as component building blocks in creating a function-based definition of an object category; and an indexing mechanism to make processing for recognition more efficient without any substantial decrease in correctness of classification. Results are given for the analysis of over 500 3-D shape descriptions created with a solid modeling tool and over 200 shape descriptions extracted from real laser range finder images. Contents:IntroductionRelated WorkThe “Knowledge Primitives”The Functional PropertiesThe “Category Definition Tree”The Function-Based Analysis ProcessRecognition Results for Completely 3-D ShapesFunction-Based Analysis Using Partial ShapeReasoning about Articulated ShapesPlanned Interactions to Verify FunctionalityFuture DirectionsReferencesIndex Readership: Computer scientists and engineers. keywords:Computer Vision;Robot Vision;Model-Based Vision;Artificial Intelligence;Knowledge-Based Vision;Scene Understanding “The book gives a complete description of the recognition-by-function systems developed by the authors. Thus, it provides a more complete picture than any of the individual papers can. All of the data used in the experiments are available: a general URL is given in the preface, and specific directories are mentioned in the text.” Computing Reviews

Download or read book Generic Object Recognition Using Form Function written by Louise Stark and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides a detailed record of the ?GRUFF? research project. The goal of the GRUFF project is to develop techniques for robotic vision systems to recognize objects by reasoning about their intended function rather than matching to a pre-defined database of 2-D object appearances or 3-D object shapes. The contributions of this work are: a demonstration of the feasibility of the ?form and function? approach to reasoning about 3-D shapes; a demonstration of the concept of using a small number of knowledge primitives as component building blocks in creating a function-based definition of an object category; and an indexing mechanism to make processing for recognition more efficient without any substantial decrease in correctness of classification. Results are given for the analysis of over 500 3-D shape descriptions created with a solid modeling tool and over 200 shape descriptions extracted from real laser range finder images.

Download or read book Image Analysis and Recognition written by Mohamed Kamel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ICIAR 2005, the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, was the second ICIAR conference, and was held in Toronto, Canada. ICIAR is organized annually, and alternates between Europe and North America. ICIAR 2004 was held in Porto, Portugal. The idea of o?ering these conferences came as a result of discussion between researchers in Portugal and Canada to encourage collaboration and exchange, mainly between these two countries, but also with the open participation of other countries, addressing recent advances in theory, methodology and applications. TheresponsetothecallforpapersforICIAR2005wasencouraging.From295 full papers submitted, 153 were ?nally accepted (80 oral presentations, and 73 posters). The review process was carried out by the Program Committee m- bersandotherreviewers;allareexpertsinvariousimageanalysisandrecognition areas. Each paper was reviewed by at least two reviewers, and also checked by the conference co-chairs. The high quality of the papers in these proceedings is attributed ?rst to the authors,and second to the quality of the reviews provided by the experts. We would like to thank the authors for responding to our call, andwewholeheartedlythankthe reviewersfor theirexcellentwork,andfortheir timely response. It is this collective e?ort that resulted in the strong conference program and high-quality proceedings in your hands.

Download or read book Towards Affordance Based Robot Control written by Erich Rome and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s mobile robot perception is insufficient for acting goal-directedly in unconstrained, dynamic everyday environments like a home, a factory, or a city. Subject to restrictions in bandwidth, computer power, and computation time, a robot has to react to a wealth of dynamically changing stimuli in such environments, requiring rapid, selective attention to decisive, action-relevant information of high current utility. Robust and general engineering methods for effectively and efficiently coupling perception, action and reasoning are unavailable. Interesting performance, if any, is currently only achieved by sophisticated robot programming exploiting domain features and specialties, which leaves ordinary users no chance of changing how the robot acts. The purpose of this volume - outcome of a GI-Dagstuhl Seminar held in Dagstuhl Castle in June 2006 - is to give a first overview on the concept of affordances for the design and implementation of autonomous mobile robots acting goal-directedly in a dynamic environment. The aim is to develop affordance-based control as a method for robotics. The potential of this new methodology will be shown by going beyond navigation-like tasks towards goaldirected autonomous manipulation in the project demonstrators.

Download or read book Sensor Based Intelligent Robots written by Gregory D. Hager and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robotics is a highly interdisciplinary research topic, that requires integration of methods for mechanics, control engineering, signal processing, planning, gra- ics, human-computer interaction, real-time systems, applied mathematics, and software engineering to enable construction of fully operational systems. The diversity of topics needed to design, implement, and deploy such systems implies that it is almost impossible for individual teams to provide the needed critical mass for such endeavors. To facilitate interaction and progress on sensor-based intelligent robotics inter-disciplinary workshops are necessary through which - depthdiscussioncanbeusedforcrossdisseminationbetweendi?erentdisciplines. The Dagstuhl foundation has organized a number of workshops on Mod- ing and Integration of Sensor Based Intelligent Robot Systems. The Dagstuhl seminars take place over a full week in a beautiful setting in the Saarland in Germany. The setting provides an ideal environment for in-depth presentations and rich interaction between the participants. This volume contains papers presented during the fourth workshop held - tober 15–20, 2000. All papers were submitted by workshop attendees, and were reviewed by at least one reviewer. We wish to thank all of the reviewers for their invaluable help in making this a high-quality selection of papers. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Schloss Dagstuhl Foundation and the sta? at Springer-Verlag. Without their support the production of this volume would not have been possible.

Download or read book Knowledge Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems written by Rajiv Khosla and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 1473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The four volume set LNAI 3681, LNAI 3682, LNAI 3683, and LNAI 3684constitute the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conferenceon Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES2005, held in Melbourne, Australia in September 2005. The 716 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected fromnearly 1400 submissions. The papers present a wealth of original researchresults from the field of intelligent information processing in thebroadest sense; topics covered in the first volume are intelligentdesign support systems, data engineering, knowledge engineering andontologies, knowledge discovery and data mining, advanced networkapplication, approaches and methods of security engineering, chancediscovery, information hiding and multimedia signal processing, softcomputing techniques and their applications, intelligent agenttechnology and applications, smart systems, knowledge - based interfacesystems, intelligent information processing for remote sensing, intelligent human computer interaction systems, experience managementand knowledge management, network (security) real-time and faulttolerant systems, advanced network application and real-time systems, and intelligent watermarking algorithms.

Download or read book Object Categorization written by Sven J. Dickinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique multidisciplinary perspective on the problem of visual object categorization.

Download or read book Intelligent Robots Sensing Modeling and Planning written by R C Bolles and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1997-12-04 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid advances in sensors, computers, and algorithms continue to fuel dramatic improvements in intelligent robots. In addition, robot vehicles are starting to appear in a number of applications. For example, they have been installed in public settings to perform such tasks as delivering items in hospitals and cleaning floors in supermarkets; recently, two small robot vehicles were launched to explore Mars. This book presents the latest advances in the principal fields that contribute to robotics. It contains contributions written by leading experts addressing topics such as Path and Motion Planning, Navigation and Sensing, Vision and Object Recognition, Environment Modeling, and others. Contents:Path and Motion PlanningNavigation and SensingLocalization and VisibilityVision, Shape, and Object RecognitionEnvironment ModelingFixture Design and GraspingDistributed SystemsEcological Systems, Learning, and Robot ControlApplications Readership: Researchers and scientists in intelligent robotics. keywords:Path Planning;Motion Planning;Dynamical Systems;Navigation and Sensing;Localization;Visibility;Object Recognition;Environment Modeling;Spatial Representation;Fixture Design;Grasping;Distributed Systems;Learning and Skill Acquisition;Robot Control

Download or read book Computer Vision ECCV 2008 written by David Forsyth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four-volume set comprising LNCS volumes 5302/5303/5304/5305 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2008, held in Marseille, France, in October 2008. The 243 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 871 papers submitted. The four books cover the entire range of current issues in computer vision. The papers are organized in topical sections on recognition, stereo, people and face recognition, object tracking, matching, learning and features, MRFs, segmentation, computational photography and active reconstruction.

Download or read book Modelling and Planning for Sensor Based Intelligent Robot Systems written by Horst Bunke and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1995 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited and reviewed volume consists of papers that were originally presented at a workshop in the Scientific Center at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. It gives an overview of the field and presents the latest developments in the areas of modeling and planning for sensor based robots. The particular topics addressed include active vision, sensor fusion, environment modeling, motion planning, robot navigation, distributed control architectures, reactive behavior, and others.

Download or read book Computational Intelligence in Archaeology written by Barcelo, Juan A. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides analytical theories offered by innovative artificial intelligence computing methods in the archaeological domain.

Download or read book 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence written by Max Lungarella and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift volume, published in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence, includes 34 refereed papers written by leading researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The papers were carefully selected from the invited lectures given at the 50th Anniversary Summit of AI, held at the Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, July 9-14, 2006. The summit provided a venue for discussions on a broad range of topics.

Download or read book Computer Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision written by Sudeep Sarkar and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1994 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the design of a complete, flexible system for perceptual organization in computer vision using graph theoretic techniques, voting methods, and an extension of the Bayesian networks called perceptual inference networks (PINs). The PIN, which forms the heart of the system and which is based on Bayesian probabilistic networks, exhibits potential for application in several areas of computer vision as well as a range of other spatial reasoning tasks. The text includes a highly comprehensive, classificatory review of prior work in perceptual organization and, within that framework, identifies key areas for future work by the computer vision research community.

Download or read book Experimental Environments for Computer Vision and Image Processing written by Henrik I. Christensen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To fully appreciate new methods developed in the area of machine vision it is necessary to have facilities which allow experimental verification of such methods. Experimental research is typically a very expensive task in terms of manpower, and consequently it is desirable to adopt standard facilities/methods which allow more efficient experimental investigations. In this volume a range of different experimental environments which facilitate construction and integration of machine vision systems is described. The environments presented cover areas such as robotics, research in individual machine vision methods, system integration, knowledge representation, and distributed computing. The set of environments covered include commercial systems, public domain software and laboratory prototype, showing the diversity of the problem of experimental research in machine vision and providing the reader with an overview of the area.

Download or read book Studies in Pattern Recognition written by Herbert Freeman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1997-02-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ten years have passed since the untimely death of King-Sun Fu, one of the great pioneers in the field of pattern recognition. It was he, more than any other single individual, who nurtured the field during its formative years, and set the tone and tempo for others to follow. This book is dedicated to his memory. This book contains 11 chapters by authors who knew King-Sun Fu and in varying degrees interacted with him. The articles span the field of pattern recognition in its current state, and cover such diverse topics as neural nets, covariance propagation, genetic selection, shape description, characteristic views for 3D modeling, face recognition, speech recognition, and machine translation. In tone they vary from the highly theoretical to the applied. Their presentation here is a testimonial, by his former colleagues and friends, to the pioneer who did so much to bring pattern recognition to its position as a recognized discipline world-wide.

Download or read book VLSI and Parallel Computing for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence written by N Ranganathan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1995-06-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers parallel algorithms and architectures and VLSI chips for a range of problems in image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. The specific problems addressed include vision and image processing tasks, Fast Fourier Transforms, Hough Transforms, Discrete Cosine Transforms, image compression, polygon matching, template matching, pattern matching, fuzzy expert systems and image rotation. The collection of papers gives the reader a good introduction to the state-of-the-art, while for an expert this serves as a good reference and a source of some new contributions in this field. Contents:ENPASSANT: An Environment for Evaluating Massively Parallel Array Architectures for Spatially Mapped Applications (M C Herbordt & C C Weems)A Reconfigurable Architecture for Image Processing and Computer Vision (S M Bhandarkar et al.)A Design Methodology for Very Large Array Processors — Part 1: GIPOP Processor Array (N Venkateswaran et al.)A Design Methodology for Very Large Array Processors — Part 2: PACUBE VLSI Arrays (N Venkateswaran et al.)A VLSI Implementation of Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (A K Bhattacharya & S S Haider)Systolic Merging and Ranking of Votes for the Generalized Hough Transform (M Albanesi & M Ferretti)High Speed Parallel VLSI Architectures for Image Decorrelation (T Acharya & A Mukherjee)PMAC: A Polygon Matching Chip (R Sastry & N Ranganathan)Quadtree Algorithms for Template Matching on Mesh Connected Computer (H Senoussi & A Saoudi)Fast Pattern-Matching Algorithm on Modular Mesh-Connected Computers with Multiple Buses (K L Chung)A VLSI Parallel Architecture for Fuzzy Expert Systems (V Catania & G Ascia)VLSI Implementation of an Efficient ASIC Architecture for Real-Time Rotation of Digital Images (I Ghosh & B Majumdar) Readership: Computer scientists and electrical engineers. keywords:

Download or read book Parallel Image Analysis and Processing written by Katsushi Inoue and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1994 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review volume contains a selection of papers by leading experts in the areas of Parallel Image Analysis, 2-D, 3-D Grammars and Automata and Neural Nets and Learning.