Robot Vision: Second International Workshop, RobVis 2008, Auckland, New Zealand, February 18-20, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4931))

In 1986, B.K.P. Horn published a book entitled Robot Vision, which actually discussed a wider ?eld of subjects, basically addressing the ?eld of computer vision, but introducing “robot vision” as a technical term. Since then, the - teraction between computer vision and research on mobile systems (often called “robots”, e.g., in an industrial context, but also including vehicles, such as cars, wheelchairs, tower cranes, and so forth) established a diverse area of research, today known as robot vision. Robot vision (or, more general, robotics) is a fast-growing discipline, already taught as a dedicated teaching program at university level. The term “robot vision” addresses any autonomous behavior of a technical system supported by visual sensoric information. While robot vision focusses on the vision process, visual robotics is more directed toward control and automatization. In practice, however, both ?elds strongly interact. Robot Vision 2008 was the second international workshop, counting a 2001 workshop with identical name as the ?rst in this series. Both workshops were organized in close cooperation between researchers from New Zealand and Germany, and took place at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Participants of the 2008 workshop came from Europe, USA, South America, the Middle East, the Far East, Australia, and of course from New Zealand. Front Matter....Pages - Dynamic Multiresolution Optical Flow Computation....Pages 1-15 Particle-Based Belief Propagation for Structure from Motion and Dense Stereo Vision with Unknown Camera Constraints....Pages 16-28 Integrating Disparity Images by Incorporating Disparity Rate....Pages 29-42 Towards Optimal Stereo Analysis of Image Sequences....Pages 43-58 Fast Line-Segment Extraction for Semi-dense Stereo Matching....Pages 59-71 High Resolution Stereo in Real Time....Pages 72-84 Stochastically Optimal Epipole Estimation in Omnidirectional Images with Geometric Algebra....Pages 85-97 Modeling and Tracking Line-Constrained Mechanical Systems....Pages 98-110 Stereo Vision Local Map Alignment for Robot Environment Mapping....Pages 111-124 Markerless Augmented Reality for Robotic Helicoptor Applications....Pages 125-138 Facial Expression Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction – A Prototype....Pages 139-152 Iterative Low Complexity Factorization for Projective Reconstruction....Pages 153-164 Accurate Image Matching in Scenes Including Repetitive Patterns....Pages 165-176 Camera Self-calibration under the Constraint of Distant Plane....Pages 177-188 An Approximate Algorithm for Solving the Watchman Route Problem....Pages 189-206 Bird’s-Eye View Vision System for Vehicle Surrounding Monitoring....Pages 207-218 Road-Signs Recognition System for Intelligent Vehicles....Pages 219-233 Situation Analysis and Atypical Event Detection with Multiple Cameras and Multi-Object Tracking....Pages 234-247 Team AnnieWAY’s Autonomous System....Pages 248-259 The Area Processing Unit of Caroline - Finding the Way through DARPA’s Urban Challenge....Pages 260-274 Sensor Architecture and Data Fusion for Robotic Perception in Urban Environments at the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge....Pages 275-290 Belief-Propagation on Edge Images for Stereo Analysis of Image Sequences....Pages 291-302 Real-Time Hand and Eye Coordination for Flexible Impedance Control of Robot Manipulator....Pages 303-318 MFC - A Modular Line Camera for 3D World Modulling....Pages 319-326 3D Person Tracking with a Color-Based Particle Filter....Pages 327-340 Terrain-Based Sensor Selection for Autonomous Trail Following....Pages 341-354 Generic Object Recognition Using Boosted Combined Features....Pages 355-366 Stereo Vision Based Self-localization of Autonomous Mobile Robots....Pages 367-380 Robust Ellipsoidal Model Fitting of Human Heads....Pages 381-390 Hierarchical Fuzzy State Controller for Robot Vision....Pages 391-402 A New Camera Calibration Algorithm Based on Rotating Object....Pages 403-411 Visual Navigation of Mobile Robot Using Optical Flow and Visual Potential Field....Pages 412-426 Behavior Based Robot Localisation Using Stereo Vision....Pages 427-439 Direct Pose Estimation with a Monocular Camera....Pages 440-453 Differential Geometry of Monogenic Signal Representations....Pages 454-465 Back Matter....Pages -

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Robot Vision, RobVis 2008, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in February 2008.

The 21 revised full papers presented together with 15 posters papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers and posters are organized in topical sections on motion analysis, stereo vision, robot vision, computer vision, visual inspection, urban vision, and the poster section.