Robot Vision: International Workshop RobVis 2001 Auckland, New Zealand, February 16-18, 2001 Proceedings

Committee JackyBaltes,GeorgyGimel¿farb,UlrichGun ¿ ther,JamesHarper,ReinhardKlette, CeciliaLourdes,BruceMacDonald,S. Manoharan,SudhirReddy,andSharon Walker. Sponsors TheInternationalAssociationforPatternRecognition MORST/DFG InstituteofElectricalandElectronicEngineers(IEEE)-NZNorthSection TheUniversityofAuckland,Tamakicampus VisualImpactAucklandLtd. Table of Contents Active Perception VisualCuesforaFixatingActiveAgent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 M?artenBj¿orkmanandJan-OlofEklundh TrackingwithaNovelPoseEstimationAlgorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 BodoRosenhahn,NorbertKrüger,TorgeRabschandGeraldSommer Real-TimeTrackingofArticulatedHumanModels Usinga3DShape-from-SilhouetteMethod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 JasonLuck,DanSmallandCharlesQ. Little Hierarchical3DPoseEstimationforArticulatedHumanBodyModels fromaSequenceofVolumeData. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 SebastianWeikandC. -E. Liedtke Vision-BasedRobotLocalizationUsingSporadicFeatures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 StefanEnderle,HeikoFolkerts,MarcusRitter,StefanSablatn¿og, GerhardKraetzschmarandGunth ¿ erPalm Poster Session1: Computer Vision AComparisonofFeatureMeasurementsforKineticStudies onHumanBodies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 NikkiAustin,YenChen,ReinhardKlette,RobertMarshall, Yuan-shengTsaiandYongbaoZhang ObjectIdenti?cationandPoseEstimationforAutomaticManipulation . . . . 52 BenjaminHohnhaeuserandGuenterHommel TowardSelf-calibrationofaStereoRigfromNoisyStereoscopicImages . . . . 60 SlimaneLarabi AColorSegmentationAlgorithmforReal-TimeObjectLocalization onSmallEmbeddedSystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 PhilippeLeclercqandThomasBrau ¿nl EYESCAN¿AHighResolutionDigitalPano