Studies in Machine Vision at MIT and TX-O Computer

The Eye of a Robot: Studies in Machine Vision at MIT and TX-O Computer (1959)

The first of two films shown here, Eye of a Robot (to 18:30) summarizes computer vision research being carried out in the 1950s at the MIT Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, under the direction of Marvin Minsky and with Patrick Winston and Berthold Horn supervising the robotics work. The film shows how "experimental computer programs extract line drawings from pictures and use knowledge about the three-dimensional world, and also how new ideas about artificial intelligence are used in these processes." The second film is silent and shows the TX-O computer at work, e.g on a tic-tac-toe game. Courtesy of MIT Museum. View more MIT150 videos at Multimedia.


Check out the video on mit.edu website, impressive!
http://mit150.mit.edu/multimedia/eye-robot-studies-machine-vision-mit-and-tx-o-computer-1959


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3D Machine Vision is here!!

In numerous machine-vision applications, solo or multiple cameras are used to capture two-dimensional (2-D) views of objects that are then analyzed for possible defects. Although analyzing these 2-D views is useful, many applications such as robotic pick-and-place systems require stereo images to perform this task. In other applications, such as surface analysis, it may be necessary to create a 3-D profile of an object to visualize any 3-D deformity that may be present.
Today, various methods exist to perform 3-D imaging. Perhaps the most popular of these are stereo-based vision methods that can use one or more cameras to extract information about the relative position of objects within a field of view. In this manner, depth information can be used, for example, to allow vision-guided robots to effectively pick and place objects located randomly within a bin. The data can also be used to reconstruct a 3-D model of the part for distance, angle, and area measurement.

Some of the things you can expect to see better

Stereo and more
Increased accuracy
Structured lighting

Read more from the source here:
http://www.vision-systems.com/articles/print/volume-16/issue-6/features/machine-vision-software-enters-the-third-dimension.html


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