Universität Bielefeld - Sonderforschungsbereich 360

Towards seeing robots

Jan-Olof Eklundh

CVAP and CAS, Department of Computer Science
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm

Monday, February 15th, 1999, 16 c.t. Uhr, Hörsaal 9

Vision is particularly important for many reasons, and due to its property of encoding both "where" and "what" in an explicit manner it should be a powerful sensing modality also for robots. However, todays technology have not benefitted fully from vision, since many methodological problems remain unsolved or require computations beyond what can be done in realtime today. In the talk I will discuss some of these problems. I will also give an overview of our longterm study of principles and techniques for an active seeing agent. including a review of some of our results during the past years on on early vision, gaze control, attention, cue integration, and how it fits together in this context.

Anke Weinberger, 1999-02-10