Looking for Vision Software

Vision List Digest: Article 6, Volume 12, Issue 9
From: LABYS WALTER PAUL
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Hi!

My group is working on a project that requires us to know both the
position and the orientation of several roving robots against a fairly
noisy background. We have linked a video camera into a 33 MHz, 486
microcomputer equipped with an AI Tech procolor+ frame grabber.

Are there any systems already out there that can deal with this problem?
I imagine that if I slap some neon stickers onto the top of the robots,
for example, that there is some algorithm that can calculate their positions
and orientations given a snapshot taken from above.

We're looking, ideally, for a library of C routines to do this. If anybody
out there could recommend suitable commercial or public domain software,
we'd be most grateful.

Thanks!
Paul Labys, LABYS@UCSU.COLORADO.EDU

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