Origins of Active Computer Vision

• Historical Roots :
  • 1982 : Term first used by Bajcsy (Nato Workshop)
  • 1987 : Paper by Aloimonous et al. at ICCV
  • 1989 : Entire session at ICCV (Dec 89)
    Papers by Ballard and Brown, etc.
    

• References :
  • J.Y. Aloimonos, I. Weiss and A. Bandopadhay, "Active Vision", International Journal on Computer Vision, pp. 333- 356, 1987.

  • R. Bajcsy, "Active Perception", IEEE Proceedings, Vol 76, No 8, pp. 996-1006, August 1988.

  • D. Ballard, "Animate Vision", Artificial Intelligence, Vol 48, No. 1, pp. 1-27, February 1991.

• Some less well known (deeper roots) :
  • J.J. Gibson, "The senses Considered as perceptual Systems", Houghton Mifflin, Bosten, MA, 1966.

  • I. Sobel, Doctoral Thesis on automatic control of image formation .

  • A.C. Sanderson, L.E. Weiss "Image Based Visual Servo Control Using Relational Graph Error Signal", IEEE Int. Conf. Cybernetics and Society, Cambridge, MA Oct. 1980, pp. 1074-1077.

  • D.A. Robinson, "Why Visuomotor Systems Don't Like Negative Feedback And How They Avoid It", in M.A . Arbib and A.R. Hanson, Eds, Vision, Brain, and Cooperative Computation. Cambridge, MA: MIT. 1988. Vision as Process

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