Robot Vision [electronic resource] : International Workshop RobVis 2001 Auckland, New Zealand, February 16-18, 2001 Proceedings /

Active Perception -- Visual Cues for a Fixating Active Agent -- Tracking with a Novel Pose Estimation Algorithm -- Real-Time Tracking of Articulated Human Models Using a 3D Shape-from-Silhouette Method -- Hierarchical 3D Pose Estimation for Articulated Human Body Models from a Sequence of Volume Data -- Vision-Based Robot Localization Using Sporadic Features -- Computer Vision -- A Comparison of Feature Measurements for Kinetic Studies on Human Bodies -- Object Identification and Pose Estimation for Automatic Manipulation -- Toward Self-calibration of a Stereo Rig from Noisy Stereoscopic Images -- A Color Segmentation Algorithm for Real-Time Object Localization on Small Embedded Systems -- EYESCAN - A High Resolution Digital Panoramic Camera -- A Wavelet-Based Algorithm for Height from Gradients -- Enhanced Stereo Vision Using Free-Form Surface Mirrors -- Robotics & Video -- RoboCup-99: A Student’s Perspective -- Horus: Object Orientation and Id without Additional Markers -- An Stereoscopic Vision System Guiding an Autonomous Helicopter for Overhead Power Cable Inspection -- 3D Stereo Vision-Based Nursing Robot for Elderly Health Care -- Efficient Computation of Intensity Profiles for Real-Time Vision -- Subpixel Flow Detection by the Hough Transform -- Tracking of Moving Heads in Cluttered Scenes from Stereo Vision -- Servoing Mechanisms for Peg-In-Hole Assembly Operations -- Robot Localization Using Omnidirectional Color Images -- The Background Subtraction Problem for Video Surveillance Systems -- Computational Stereo -- Stable Monotonic Matching for Stereoscopic Vision -- Random Sampling and Voting Method for Three-Dimensional Reconstruction -- Binocular Stereo by Maximizing the Likelihood Ratio Relative to a Random Terrain -- Stereo Reconstruction from Polycentric Panoramas -- Robotic Vision -- Two Modules of a Vision-Based Robotic System: Attention and Accumulation of Object Representations -- Compatibilities for the Perception-Action Cycle -- Trifocal Tensors with Grassmann-Cayley Algebra -- Camera Calibration Using Rectangular Textures -- Image Acquisition -- Optical Flow in Log-mapped Image Plane -- Hypothetically Modeled Perceptual Sensory Modality of Human Visual Selective Attention Scheme by PFC-Based Network -- Results of Test Flights with the Airborne Digital Sensor ADS40 -- Localized Video Compression for Machine Vision.