Robot vision tasks require new software architecture and algorithms to integrate and manage sensors and images. This volume is a selection of papers from a NATO Advanced Study Institute on active perception and robot vision.

Inhalt
Motion Understanding Systems.- Reflections on Active (Machine) Vision.- Motion Parameter Estimation Using Correspondence Approach.- Active Vision Through Prediction-Error Minimization.- Representing Scenes Along a Route by a Moving Observer.- Gaze Behaviors for Robotics.- On Focus-of-Attention by Active Focusing.- Active Perception and 3D Object Recognition.- Symbolic Representation of Object Models.- Environment Models and Information Assimilation.- Scene Segmentation in the Framework of Active Perception.- A Neural Network Application for Classifying Surfaces.- Indexing via Color Histograms.- On the Design of Robot Vision Systems.- Parallel Vision.- Towards Parallel Processing of Multisensed Data.- Real-Time Vision for Autonomous and Teleoperated Control of Unmanned Vehicles.- Behavioral Knowledge in Sensor/Data Fusion Systems.- Group-Theoretic Approach to Motion Analysis for 3D Robotic Tracking.- Multi-Sensor Integration for Robots Interacting with Autonomous Objects.- Segmentation of Moving Objects.- Apparent Motions in Three-Dimensional Images.- Efficient Representation and High-Compression Coding of Image Sequences.- A New Paradigm for Computational Stereo.- Smoothing Range Data for Curvature Estimation.- Residual Analysis for Range Image Segmentation and Classification.- Using Curvature Information in the Decomposition and Representation of Planar Curves.- Investigation into Building an Invariant Surface Model from Sparse Data.- Form Features Recognition in a Multi-Level Representation Context.- Orientation and Spatial Occupancy Representations in Shape Analysis.- On Active Contour Models.- Templates and the Hough Transform.- Coefficient Focusing for the Moore-Penrose Associative Memory.- Object Detection in Noisy Images.- Active Feature Localization.- Haptic Perception with a Robot Hand: Requirements and Realization.- Visual Techniques for the Controlled Movement of Docking.- Towards the Development of a Multisensorial Vision System: An Adaptive Approach to the Low-Level Phase.- Attributed Parallel Rewriting in Vision.