1 Report: 1988 NSF Range Image Understanding Workshop. - 1. 1 Introduction. - 1. 2 Issues in Sensing and Sensors. - 1. 3 Early Processing. - 1. 4 Obejct Recognition. - 1. 5 Sensor Integration. - 1. 6 Range Sensing for Navigation. - 1. 7 Applications Group Report. - 1. 8 Appendix. - 2 A Rule-Based Approach to Binocular Stereopsis. - 2. 1 Introduction. - 2. 2 The MPG Approach to Binocular Fusion. - 2. 3 Review of Procedures for Stereo Matching Under High-level Constraints. - 2. 4 Matching Methods Included in the Rule-based Program. - 2. 5 A Review of Some Important Rules. - 2. 6 Experimental Results. - 2. 7 Conclusions. - 3 Geometric Signal Processing. - 3. 1 Introduction. - 3. 2 Machine Perception. - 3. 3 Geometric Representations. - 3. 4 Geometric Sensors. - 3. 5 Geometric Signal Modeling. - 3. 6 Geometric Descriptions. - 3. 7 Geometric Approximation. - 3. 8 Robust Approximation. - 3. 9 Emerging Themes. - 4 Segmentation versus object representation are they separable?. - 4. 1 Introduction. - 4. 2 The Role of Shape Primitives. - 4. 3 Segmentation Process. - 4. 4 Control Structure. - 4. 5 Results. - 4. 6 Summary. - 5 Object Recognition. - 5. 1 Introduction. - 5. 2 Aspects of the Object Recognition Problem. - 5. 3 Recognition via Matching Sensed Data to Models. - 5. 4 The Statistical Pattern Recognition Approach. - 5. 5 Object Represented as Geometric Aggregate. - 5. 6 Object as an Articulated Set of Parts. - 5. 7 Concluding Discussion. - 6 Applications of Range Image Sensing and Processing. - 6. 1 Introduction. - 6. 2 Major Industrial Application Areas. - 6. 3 Obstacles to Practical Application. - 6. 4 Conclusion. - 7 3-D Vision Techniques for Autonomous Vehicles. - 7. 1 Introduction. - 7. 2 Active range and reflectance sensing. - 7. 3 Terrain representations. - 7. 4 Combining multiple terrain maps. - 7. 5 Combining range and intensity data. - 7. 6 Conclusion. - 8Multisensor Fusion for Automatic Scene Interpretation. - 8. 1 Introduction. - 8. 2 Image Models. - 8. 3 Intersensory Verification of Image Features. - 8. 4 Intersensory Verification from Physical Principles. - 8. 5 Multisensory Vision An Illustrative Example. - 8. 6 Conclusions. Language: English