Exploratory Vision: The Active Eye

Advances in sensing, signal processing, and computer technology during the past half century have stimulated numerous attempts to design general-purpose machines that see. These attempts have met with at best modest success and more typically outright failure. The difficulties encountered in building working computer vision systems based on state-of-the-art techniques came as a surprise. Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the problem is that machine vision systems cannot deal with numer...