CAREER: Controllable Visual Cues: Analysis and Applications of Images as Sensory Signals in Complex Control Systems

IIS-9876145 Soatto，Stefano华盛顿大学51710.00美元职业：可控视觉线索：在复杂控制系统中作为感觉信号的图像的分析和应用这是一个为期四年的连续奖项的第一年资助。该项目关注的是视觉作为在复杂、动态和未知环境中运行的工程系统的传感器的研究。它需要分析图像的可测量属性，这些属性取决于可控参数，例如成像设备的几何形状和光学器件。这些属性被称为“可控线索”，它们包括，例如，立体声，运动和调节。在该项目中，视觉的目的性方面得到了强调：环境的知识和表示只对完成控制任务起作用，例如基于视觉的导航，对接，操纵，内窥镜手术，人机交互。为了解决建模和表示的问题，有必要了解环境的几何形状和动态如何与来自成像传感器的信息相关。从长远来看，这些问题在复杂系统的研究中将变得至关重要，在复杂系统中，需要组织低级信息，以便在控制层次结构的不同级别之间或控制结构中涉及的不同代理之间进行有效的通信。研究材料将被纳入一个涵盖研究生、本科生和大学预科水平的教育计划。此外，为了强调物理直觉，PI计划开发一个关于使用可控线索的实验装置，该装置将通过互联网教育服务提供给学前学生。

IIS-9876145Soatto, StefanoWashington University$51,710.00CAREER: Controllable Visual Cues: Analysis and Applications of Images as Sensory Signals in Complex Control SystemsThis is the first year funding of a four-year continuing award. This project is concerned with the study of vision as a sensor for engineering systems operating in complex, dynamic and unknown environments. It entails the analysis of measurable properties of images that depend upon controllable parameters such as the geometry and optics of the imaging device. These properties are called "controllable cues" and they include, for instance, stereo, motion and accommodation. In the project, the purposeful aspect of vision is emphasized: knowledge and representation of the environment are only functional to the accomplishment of control tasks, as for instance visual-based navigation, docking, manipulation, endoscopic surgery, Human-Machine Interaction. In order to address the issue of modeling and representation, it is necessary to understand how the geometry and the dynamics of the environment are related to the information coming from the imaging sensor. In the long term, these issues will become crucial in the study of complex systems, where low-level information needs to be organized in order to perform effective communication between different levels of a control hierarchy, or between different agents involved in the control structure. The research material will be integrated into an educational plan that spans graduate, undegraduate and pre-college levels. In addition, to emphasize physical intuition, the PI plan to develop an experimental setup on the use of controllable cues, which will be accessible by precollege students through an Internet educational service.