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Evolution of Robotic Heads

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Robotic heads are actively controlled camera platforms, typically designed to mimic the head and camera (eye) motions associated with humans. Early designs were typically built to study the role of eye and head motion in active vision systems [1]. Later designs are also used in the study of human-robot interaction.

Background

Cameras have a finite field of view and thus must be actively controlled in order to bring out of view portions of the scene into view and to track dynamic scene events. The need for active control of camera geometry becomes even more critical when multiple cameras are involved as changes in relative camera geometry can simplify stereo image processing and can be used to bring specific scene features within the tuning range of multiple camera scene reconstruction algorithms.

The development of single camera robotic heads can be traced back...

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Michael Jenkin

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Jenkin, M. (2021). Evolution of Robotic Heads. In: Computer Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03243-2_277-1

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