The Methological differences between human and machine vision

From "3D Shape, Its Unique Place in Visual Perception", Zygmunt Pizlo

Resources for Vision and Robotics

For the practitioners of Vision and Robotics, relevant sources of information and software platforms are the sine qua non for effectiveness (doing the right thing) and efficiency (doing things right) in research and development.

A full list of resources would be of course boundless, but the prominent (in terms of popularity and spread) resources would probably suffice the average interest:

Mailing lists (conferences cfp, job openings, seminars, news):

http://lists.diku.dk/mailman/listinfo/imageworld (Computer Vision community)

https://lists.iais.fraunhofer.de/sympa/info/euron-dist (Robotics community)

http://www-clmc.usc.edu/mailman/listinfo/robotics-worldwide (Robotics community)

Software platforms:

Robot Operating System (ROS): http://www.ros.org/wiki/

Open Computer Vision Library (OpenCV): http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/

Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL): http://www.cgal.org/

Blender (3D Content Creation Suite): http://www.blender.org/

Open Graphics Library (OpenGL): http://www.opengl.org/

Web Graphics Library (WebGL): http://www.khronos.org/webgl/

The use of all the above resources are FREE for everyone and tutorials are all around the internet for amateurs and professionals. Get a grip on and enjoy!

Welcome

This is my initiating post of my blog "Vision & Robotics".

I created this blog as a means to communicate news, advances in the science of machine vision and robotics as well as promote research in these fields.

The interest as well as imagination of people for automatic, self-intelligent machines traces back thousands of years ago. To the best of my knowledge, "Talos" (or equivalently "Τάλως" in greek) was probably the first humanoid robot constructed by God "Ifaistos" to guard the island of Crete according to the hellenic mythology.

The extent to which the records about Talos are true are not so important. What is important is that man's creations first take shape in imagination and in this aspect, we can accept that this first step was made a long ago and that today we have a plethora of tools in our disposal to make the trip from imagination into reality.

Welcome :)