Research is ongoing on object recognition that involves representation of complex objects, their appearances from different viewpoints, and the development of recognition strategies and algorithms. The objective of the work in the second area is to devise compact representations of images for effectively capturing image and scene information of interest. The representation may focus on the spatial variation in one image or in video sequences. It may exploit knowledge of the scene contents and objectives of image analysis, e.g., obstacle avoidance, human motion, aerial surveillance and aircraft landing. Finally, the representa-tion may be used for efficient depiction and communication of the scenes, e.g., through compression and graphics algorithms.
Work is ongoing in all of the above areas.
The projects in the third area use the acquired scene information. Task planning involves qualitative reasoning, testing and error recovery feasibility. Work is ongoing on walking robots and special purpose gripper design. Several of the projects involve interaction with other groups. Significant attention is paid to the computational performance of the algorithms.