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Active, or animate, computer vision regards the visual process as an active and task-oriented process over time. It also emphasizes the strong ties between perception and action that one can observe among seeing creatures. This paradigm has emerged over the past decade, and the article reviews its background, as well as progress made and noticeable trends. Although progress so far is limited, both concerning theoretical foundations and practical implementations, the field addresses key issues about seeing systems. Active vision is therefore likely to have substantial impact on our understanding of computational vision as well as of intelligent agents.
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Eklundh, JO. (1995). Trends in active vision. In: van Leeuwen, J. (eds) Computer Science Today. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1000. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0015263
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