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Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence

by Nils J. Nilsson
April 1998
Beginner
513 pages
14h 32m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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6

Robot Vision

6.1 Introduction

Most of the examples I have used so far to describe S-R and state machines used quite limited sensory inputs, which provided information only about adjacent cells in their grid worlds. There are many other sensory modalities that can reveal important information about an agent’s world—acoustic, temperature, pressure, and so on. Sensory transducers are used in many different kinds of machines whose functions must be responsive to their environments.

In animals, the sense of vision is able to provide a large amount of distal information about the world with each glance. Endowing machines with the means to “see” is one of the concerns of a subject called computer vision. The field is very broad and consists of both general ...

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