Research in Information Science & Technology: Machine Vision

Abstract

Machine Vision is fast becoming a key technology, and advances in machine vision are occurring along several fronts. This report outlines the progress being made at Columbia University in developing new machine vision algorithms and applications, and the associated technology transfer. Specific results include a new model of Lambertain reflectance, methods for recovery of shape from specularity, integrating color and polarization for shape recovery, visual learning of appearance for fast object recognition, automated 3-D model acquisition from range imagery, new methods for modeling deformable objects, deriving shape from shadow information, methods to control robotic hands with vision, new approaches to sensor planning and placement, generating spatial language descriptions from imagery, and vision algorithms to recognize hand gestures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA351875

Entities

People

  • J. Kender
  • P. Allen
  • S. Nayar
  • T. Boult

Organizations

  • Columbia University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Algorithms
  • Applied Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automata Theory
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Geometry
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Image Processing
  • Information Science
  • Object Recognition
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Visual Servoing

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • Autonomy