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Creating Objects and Object Categories for Studying Perception and Perceptual Learning
Published on: November 2, 2012
Revisiting active perception
Ruzena Bajcsy1, Yiannis Aloimonos2, John K Tsotsos3
11Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA.
Abstract:
Despite the recent successes in robotics, artificial intelligence and computer vision, a complete artificial agent necessarily must include active perception. A multitude of ideas and methods for how to accomplish this have already appeared in the past, their broader utility perhaps impeded by insufficient computational power or costly hardware. The history of these ideas, perhaps selective due to our perspectives, is presented with the goal of organizing the past literature and highlighting the seminal contributions. We argue that those contributions are as relevant today as they were decades ago and, with the state of modern computational tools, are poised to find new life in the robotic perception systems of the next decade.
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