Vision for Control: Optimality and Usability
Abstract : This final report for the grant DAADl9-99-l-0139 and the associated instrumentation grant DURlP 4425l0-2l338 describes research conducted both at Washington University in St. Louis and at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1999 to 2003. Research has been documented in 34 publications, among which two best-paper awards (the Marr Prize, the highest recognition in the field of Computer Vision, and the Siemens Prize with the Outstanding Paper Award by the IEEE Computer Society) and a book, expected to appear in June 2003. Technology firsts include the first ever system (and still the only one) for estimating three-dimensional structure and motion of an arbitrary (static) scene in real time, and the first optimal algorithms for estimating shape from accommodation. Given the scale of the project, consisting of 70K