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]