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  Computer vision - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Computer vision is a subfield of artificial intelligence.
Cognitive computer vision is strongly related to cognitive psychology and biological computation.
One interesting application of computer vision, commonly used in the creation of visual effects for cinema and broadcast, is camera tracking or matchmoving.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Computer_vision   (721 words)

  
 Cognitive computer vision - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cognitive_computer_vision   (142 words)

  
 Vision
"Computer vision is the branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on providing computers with the functions typical of human vision.
Visit Vampire "a research project on cognitive computer vision which is funded by the European Union.
A cognitive vision system may therefore be said to combine the acquisition and processing of visual data relating to objects, processes or events, and the mobilisation of specific knowledge for reasoning, establishing conclusions and making decisions.
www.aaai.org /AITopics/html/vision.html   (2388 words)

  
 PRELIMINARY    CALL    FOR    PAPERS
Neural and Fuzzy Computation in Cognitive Computer Vision
Cognitive Computer Vision is the study of the acquisition and use of knowledge and reasoning in vision.
As a sub-field of computer vision, cognitive vision seeks to evolve computer vision from the science of visual reconstruction to a science of machines that see.
www.ntu.edu.sg /home/elpwang/nc2005/Cho.htm   (137 words)

  
 CV/CNS::publications
Computational studies of the spatial architecture of primate visual cortex: Columns, maps, and protomaps.
Computer aided anatomy: reconstruction and characterization of the opercular surface of macaque striate cortex [ARVO Abstract].
Space-variant computer vision with a complex-logarithmic sensor geometry.
eslab.bu.edu /publications/publications.php   (2816 words)

  
 AI Magazine: Cognitive vision   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Forty years ago, the integration of computational vision and AI was considered in the thesis of L. Roberts (1963).
In addition, computer vision has also matured in terms of modeling, and today, there are well-developed models for description of features and assemblies of features, motion, and objects that use a sound Bayesian framework.
The sheer need for computer power implied that the car had to be a truck; otherwise, it would have been too small to hold all the computers.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2483/is_2_25/ai_n6098001   (1428 words)

  
 URCS Robotics Technical Reports
The correspondences are derived from the convex hull of the silhouettes of the images of the object and its mirror reflection.
Even in an environment without other computers, the noise while wearing the VR helmet and eye tracker is not significantly different from the noise obtained while viewing a laptop computer screen in the same location.
We then present a novel low-level computational approach for detecting and recognizing temporally repetitive movements, such as those characteristic of walking people or flying birds, on the basis of the periodic nature of their motion signatures.
www.cs.rochester.edu /trs/robotics-trs.html   (18070 words)

  
 RECENT ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (G5041)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The main aim of the course is to introduce the rapidly growing generative modelling approach to cognitive computer vision and use practical tools to perform `intelligent' visual processing.
Vision can be understood from a variety of perspectives but here we will emphasise computational approaches, in particular Bayesian techniques for inference and learning in cognitive vision.
At the end of the course students should understand the main issues and state of the art in cognitive computer vision systems, including the relationship between natural and artificial vision.
www.cogs.susx.ac.uk /informatics_docs/ughandbook/bookletnode69.html   (370 words)

  
 [vslist] Workshop on Visual Attention - WAPCV 2004 - Technical Program
Methods = on attention and control are mandatory to render computer vision systems = more robust.=20 This workshop will provide an interdisciplinary forum to present and = communicate methodologies and concepts from computer vision, cognitive = psychology, autonomous systems research and neuroscience with respect to = theory and application of visual attention.
This = presentation will focus on a new strategy utilizing a novel distributed = saliency computation mechanism that solves at least one aspect of the = binding problem, namely the binding of features from separate = representations into a whole.
We describe a computational neuroscience theoretical framework = which shows how an attentional state held in a short term memory in the = prefrontal cortex can by top-down processing influence ventral and = dorsal stream cortical areas using biased competition to account for = many aspects of visual attention.
www.visionscience.com /pipermail/vslist/2004/000796.html   (585 words)

  
 ECVision - European Research Network for Cognitive Computer Vision Systems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
"Cognitive vision is a lot about being able to assert that something is there, given very little visual evidence, and even perhaps despite evidence to the contrary"
The ECVision Prize for the Best Application Development in Cognitive Vision Systems was won by Inx Systems Corp., Finland; click here for details and press cuttings.
ECVision is a research network which was formed to promote research, education, and application systems engineering in cognitive computer vision.
www.ecvision.org /home/Home.htm   (168 words)

  
 Vision and Modeling Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Vision and Modeling Group of the MIT Media Laboratory was formed in 1987 by Alex (Sandy) Pentland and Ted Adelson, to study problems in computer vision, scene modeling, and human perception.
Although we (Picard and Pentland) continue to build our new research areas upon the same foundations of pattern recognition, mathematical modeling, computer vision, perceptual science, and signal processing, we now have expanded into many new areas and it is time for "Vision and Modeling" to go the way of the horse and carriage.
Note: the Vision and Modeling Technical Reports List will continue to be an active repository of where Pentland, Picard, and other group alumni post articles until further notice.
www-white.media.mit.edu /vismod   (266 words)

  
 Computer Vision Research Groups
Center for Applied Vision and Imaging Sciences The Center for Applied Vision and Imaging Sciences (CAVIS) at Florida State University is dedicated to research and education in computer vision, pattern recognition and applications.
University of Georgia - Visual and Parallel Computing Laboratory The goal of the VPCL is to advance the state of the art in the theory and applications of Visual Computing and Parallel Computing.
Vision Lab at York University Research in the Vision Lab at York University concentrates on theoretical and applied aspects of computer vision, with a particular emphasis on stereo and motion analysis.
www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/v-groups.html   (4009 words)

  
 CVSSP Jobs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) is offering six studentships on various funded projects for UK and EU citizens wishing to pursue research towards the award of a PhD degree.
A long-term aim of the Centre is to develop intelligent systems that harness these technologies in applications such as cognitive computer vision, speech and biometrics.
CVSSP is one of the constituent research centres of the School of Electronics and Physical Sciences which ranks, from the research point of view, among the top 10% of UK Universities in the subject area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
www.ee.surrey.ac.uk /Research/VSSP/CVSSPJobs.html   (599 words)

  
 Workshop in Bonn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In recent years the rising computer performance has made it possible to exploit complex statistical models and to learn and estimate their parameters from an increasing amount of data.
Especially the related topics of generalization and choice of model complexity are of central importance in computer vision.
The application of methods from statistical learning theory and neurally inspired approaches in computer vision are rather diverse and learning in computer vision is by no means a homogeneous field.
www-dbv.cs.uni-bonn.de /learning.html   (449 words)

  
 Computer Vision and Robotics Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Computer Vision and Robotics Research (CVRR) Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego offers an unique and stimulating environment to graduate students, faculty members, and visiting scholars/collaborators to pursue a wide spectrum of research studies in the Sensor-Based Intelligent Systems area.
The major thrust of our research is on developing a clear understanding of the computational and engineering related issues underlying the perception, planning, and control mechanisms for completely autonomous or semi-autonomous operation of integrated systems.
The academic program of the laboratory is primarily associated with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
cvrr.ucsd.edu   (152 words)

  
 IPB - Institut für Photogrammetrie Bonn
The goal of the second summer school is to provide an intensive and challenging introduction to the area of cognitive computer vision.
The objective is to provide post-graduate students with a comprehensive introduction to all of the constituent areas of cognitive vision.
A component of the registration fee will be used to establish a fund to facilitate future summerschools in cognitive vision.
www.ipb.uni-bonn.de /events/summerschool04/summerschool04.html   (268 words)

  
 Image Understanding   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The computer concluded that one of those images --- of Jose Hernandez, an 18th Street member subject to the civil injunction --- was the closest match, with a 94% probability of accuracy.
In developing a face detection program, Schneiderman and other computer vision researchers, such as former Robotics Institute director Takeo Kanade, can't tell the computer precisely what a face is supposed to look like.
Our technology is based on computer vision: the systems read the camera images and extract the identification data from the images.
www.aimagazine.org /AITopics/html/imagunder.html   (3299 words)

  
 Image Processing
PEIPA is a archive devoted to image processing, computer vision, and computer graphics.
Vision and Image Processing Archive it is possible to search through the vision and image processing archive using a Perl regular expression:
This is a collection of links to people working with or having research interest in computer graphics and applications.
www.geocities.com /Tokyo/1158/ImageProcessing-e.html   (422 words)

  
 Visual Cognitive Systems Lab Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Visually enabled cognitive systems are intelligent systems that use vision among other sensors in order to act and interact in everyday situations that emerge in natural and urban environments.
This includes a plethora of devices, ranging from mobile robots to intelligent environments, personal devices, and cognitive assistants.
The Visual Cognitive Systems Laboratory is involved in basic research in such systems, with emphasis on visual learning and recognition.
cogvis.fri.uni-lj.si   (81 words)

  
 Computer Vision Laboratory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Computers of today excel at mindlessly carrying out large numbers of repetitive calculations.
One of the next major steps in the advancement of computing devices is not only making them faster, but also making them more interactive and responsive to the user.
The method incorporates real-time computer vision techniques to recognize user acknowledgements from natural head gestures (nod=yes, shake=no).
www.cse.ohio-state.edu /CVL/Research/DialogBoxAgent/dialogBoxAgent.html   (241 words)

  
 MERL – William Freeman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
William T. Freeman is a senior research scientist at MERL Cambridge Research, where he studies machine learning applied to computer vision and interactive applications of computer vision.
As part of his doctoral work, he developed "steerable filters", a class of oriented filters useful in image processing and computer vision.
In 1997 he received the Outstanding Paper prize at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for work on applying bilinear models to separate "style and content".
www.merl.com /people/freeman   (160 words)

  
 CVWW'04 Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Ninth Computer Vision Winter Workshop took place in Piran, Slovenia, between February 4 - 6, 2004.
To deepen the communication and collaboration between computer vision researchers from Austria, Czech Republic, and Slovenia.
Computer Vision Laboratory, Trzaska 25, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia
cogvis.fri.uni-lj.si /events/CVWW04   (75 words)

  
 Cognitive vision systems
The purpose of cognitive systems is to produce a response to appropriate percepts.
A fundamental property of cognitive vision systems is that they shall be extendable.
We will look at an implementation for the learning of object properties and view parameters in a fairly unrestricted setting, to be used for subsequent recognition purposes.
www.ee.surrey.ac.uk /icpr2004/tutorials/Cognitivevisionsystems_000.htm   (380 words)

  
 Sussex Computer Vision: Introduction to the HTML teach files   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
These computer vision "teach" files form part of the teaching material for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Computer Vision in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex.
The main author is David Young For information about vision research in the School, see our computer vision page.
This is partly in response to a suggestion at a meeting of the British Machine Vision Association that more sharing of material amongst computer vision teachers would help the development of the subject.
www.cogs.susx.ac.uk /users/davidy/teachvision/vision0.html   (860 words)

  
 2004 Workshop on Generic Object Recognition and Categorization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The capacity to categorize objects plays a crucial role for a cognitive and autonomous visual system in order to compartmentalize the huge numbers of objects it has to handle into manageable categories.
Is this a dog/cat?) is much faster in human vision than recognition or identification (Is this my dog/cat?).
Even though generic object recognition and classification have been one of the goals of computer vision since its beginnings, we are still far from achieving this goal.
www.vision.ethz.ch /cvpr04-gorc   (560 words)

  
 VAMPIRE - Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
VAMPIRE is a research project on cognitive computer vision which is funded by the European Union.
VAMPIRE is concerned with architures and computational modules that meet these specifications.
Plone makes heavy use of CSS, which means it is accessible to any internet browser, but the design needs a standards-compliant browser to look like we intended it.
www.vampire-project.org   (204 words)

  
 Computer Vision Conferences and Symposia
Computer Vision Conferences - Maintained by Keith Price, this extensive list includes abstracts, paper deadlines, and much more.
WWW Virtual Library Machine Vision Conferences - Not many vision conferences listed, but you can search a wide variety of conference categories.
CVPR 2000 - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2000
www.cs.cmu.edu /~cil/txtv-conf.html   (1864 words)

  
 Computer Vision Conference Listing from USC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications: Current Techniques and Future Trends
5 Tracks: Computer Vision and Image Analysis; Pattern Recognition and Basic Technologies; Signal, Speech and Image Processing; Systems, Robotics and Applications; Cognitive Approaches and Soft Computing Call for papers.
The Computer vision group at USC has descriptions of a number of research projects.
iris.usc.edu /Information/Iris-Conferences.html   (1215 words)

  
 Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science: VISION TALKS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Rutgers Series on Human and Computer Vision is sponsored by:
The series on Human and Computer Vision features weekly talks by researchers spanning both human and computer vision.
The majority of the speakers are from universities and research institutions from New York to Philadelphia, with additional special guests from the US and abroad.This series attempts to bring together in one forum vision researchers studying psychophysics, cognition, computer vision, and machine vision.
ruccs.rutgers.edu /talks/hmv_talk0900.html   (202 words)

  
 Cognitive Computer Vision: Unsupervised   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A means for establishing transformation-invariant representations of objects is proposed and analyzed, in which different views are associated on the basis of the temporal order of the presentation of these views, as well as their spatial similarity.
We apply techniques of computer vision and neural network learning to get a versatile robot manipulator.
For approaching and grasping technical objects three principal tasks have to be done — calibrating the camera—robot coordination, detecting the desired object in the images, and choosing a stable grasping pose.
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk /cgi/rbf/CCVSYL/sylentry.pl?TAG194   (460 words)

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