The goal in computer vision systems is to analyze data collected from the environment and
derive an interpretation to complete a specified task. Vision system tasks may be divided into …

The development of software that would be to image understanding systems what expert
system shells are to expert systems has been the subject of considerable enquiry over the …

Few systems capable of recognizing complex objects with free-form (sculptured) surfaces
have been developed. The apparent lack of success is mainly due to the lack of a competent …

A survey of research in the area of vision sensor planning is presented. The problem can be
summarized as follows: given information about the environment as well as information …

The paper focuses mainly on extraction of important topographic objects, like buildings and
roads, that have received much attention the last decade. As main input data, aerial imagery …

A database of mechanical components is an important issue for some manufacturing
activities such as cost estimation, process planning, and design by case-based reasoning. In …

Written by leading researchers, the 2nd Edition of the Dictionary of Computer Vision & Image
Processing is a comprehensive and reliable resource which now provides explanations of …

This paper presents an approach for retrieving and matching similar designs in a database
of mechanical components. The retrieval and matching process is based on the geometric …

We propose a model-based approach to automated 3D extraction of buildings from aerial
images. We focus on a reconstruction strategy that is not restricted to a small class of …

The authors develop methodologies for the automatic selection of image features to be used
to visually control the relative position and orientation (pose) between the end-effector of an …