Emerging Topics in Computer Vision

10.1. Introduction

Computer vision research has traditionally been motivated by a few main areas of application. The most prominent of these include biological vision modeling, robot navigation and manipulation, surveillance, medical imaging, and various inspection, detection, and recognition tasks. In recent years, a new area, often referred to as perceptual interfaces, has emerged to motivate an increasingly large amount of research within the machine vision community. The general focus of this effort is to integrate multiple perceptual modalities (such as computer vision, speech and sound processing, and haptic I/O) into the user interface. For computer vision technology in particular, the primary aim is to use vision as an effective input ...