[mod.ai] Vision Request

crs%f@LANL.ARPA (Charlie Sorsby) (06/20/86)

          I am getting started on a Master's  Thesis  in  the  general
          area  of  Computer  Vision.   Since [...] vision and AI appear
          to  overlap considerably, I'm trying AIList.  I apologize if
          this is not an appropriate medium for the following request.

          I would sincerely appreciate any pointers to literature  and
          current  research  in this area and particularly in the area
          of stereo vision.  I  have  Computer  Vision  by  Ballard  &
          Brown,  the  vision  section  of  the  Handbook of AI, Image
          Understanding 1984, Ullman  &  Richards,  eds.   and  a  few
          papers that I've found.

          What are the current  hot  research  areas  in  this  field?
          What, in your opinion, are the most important problems to be
          solved?  What, aside from stereopsis and  range-finding  are
          options  for  depth-information  recovery?  What, currently,
          appears to be the best method of obtaining this  information
          fast enough to be useful?

          Is any research being directed at the possibility  of  real-
          time stereo vision?  What are your opinions of its feasibil-
          ity?  Its value?

          If any of you have papers  that  you  would  be  willing  to
          share, my mailing address is:

                        Charlie Sorsby
                        Los Alamos National Laboratory
                        Post Office Box 1663    MS-J957
                        Los Alamos, NM  87545

          Opinions are welcome and please also mention if I may  quote
          you  or  if  you  prefer that I don't.  I would also welcome
          suggestions for other lists where it may make sense to  make
          this request.  [Vision-List@ADS is known.  --KIL]

          While I try to follow the network as time permits,  I  would
          appreciate  it if you could mail information to me by way of
          one of the paths in my signature.

          I will happily summarize any information that I receive  and
          post it to AIList.

          Charlie Sorsby
                  ...{cmcl2, ihnp4, ..}!lanl!crs
                                          crs@lanl.arpa

  [I generally forward vision items to Vision-List (and did this time),
  but am permitting this message as a favor to Charlie.  AI-related
  discussion of vision (e.g., for autonomous navigation) is pertinent
  to this list, but discussion of particular algorithms would generally
  not be.  -- KIL]