Policy - CAD/CAM/Robotics/Vision
La...@sri-stripe.arpa.uucp
Robotics, and Vision are large enough areas that they
should have their own lists. I've heard that there is
a CADinterest^.es@Xerox.COM list (reachable via seismo
from csnet) that discusses VLSI design, CAD workstations,
etc. There are Arpanet lists for graphics
and for workstations, as well as Vision-List@ADS for
machine-vision discussions. I don't know of any robotics
list, although Vision-List has carried related messages.
(Vision workers are often interested in path planning and
other robotic issues.)
Some of the aforementioned lists have been inactive lately.
You could either "take over" one of their discussions for
awhile or start a new list that combines your own interests.
I'm told that an AI-Hardware list will be formed soon --
perhaps CAD/CAM will be of interest there.
-- Ken Laws
BTW, there is indeed a literature on combining 2-D views to
construct 3-D objects -- both for converting mechanical drawings
to solid models and for extracting buildings from aerial
imagery. I don't have references handy, but Tom Strat
here at SRI published some papers on this a year or so ago.
Underwood also worked on this problem, as have others. There
is also a vast literature on combining stereo views to obtain
3-D models for robotic inspection and grasping.