Visual Sensors

Visual sensors are able to capture a large quantity of information from the environment around them. A wide variety of visual systems can be found from the classical monocular systems to omnidirectional RGB-D and more sophisticated 3D systems. Every configuration presents some specific characteristics that make them useful for solving different problems. Their range of applications is wide and varied including robotics industry agriculture quality control visual inspection surveillance autonomous driving and navigation aid systems. In this book several problems that employ visual sensors are presented. Among them we highlight visual SLAM image retrieval manipulation calibration object recognition navigation etc.