Recent advances in vision algorithms and increases in computer
performance have made new capabilities available in autonomous robotics
for real-time applications. In general, computer-vision-based
solutions to robotics problems employ a high-level system architecture
that makes use of low-level processing blocks. While the high-level
system architecture is still an active area of research, many of the
underlying low-level processing blocks and their associated methods
have begun to stabilize, yielding a set of operators that has been
found useful in a wide variety of tasks. | 