From the reviews: "'From Features to Actions: Unifying Perspectives in Computational and Robot Vision' was a workshop organized by the editors ... . This book is a collection of interesting research papers presented at that workshop. ... this book provides an overview of the latest research on vision algorithms, including their use and evaluation with robotic applications. ... I believe that this book will be a valuable resource for those interested in robotic vision research." (George K. Adam, ACM Computing Reviews, December, 2008)

• Recent Trends in Computational and Robot Vision.- Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception.- People Detection Using Multiple Sensors on a Mobile Robot.- Perceiving Objects and Movements to Generate Actions on a Humanoid Robot.- Wald's Sequential Analysis for Time-constrained Vision Problems.- Pose Estimation and Feature Tracking for Robot Assisted Surgery with Medical Imaging.- A Sliding Window Filter for Incremental SLAM.- Topological and Metric Robot Localization through Computer Vision Techniques.- More Vision for SLAM.- Maps, Objects and Contexts for Robots.- Vision-Based Navigation Strategies.- Image-Based Visual Servoing with Extra Task Related Constraints in a General Framework for Sensor-Based Robot Systems.

From the reviews: "'From Features to Actions: Unifying Perspectives in Computational and Robot Vision' was a workshop organized by the editors ... . This book is a collection of interesting research papers presented at that workshop. ... this book provides an overview of the latest research on vision algorithms, including their use and evaluation with robotic applications. ... I believe that this book will be a valuable resource for those interested in robotic vision research." (George K. Adam, ACM Computing Reviews, December, 2008)

• Recent Trends in Computational and Robot Vision.- Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception.- People Detection Using Multiple Sensors on a Mobile Robot.- Perceiving Objects and Movements to Generate Actions on a Humanoid Robot.- Wald's Sequential Analysis for Time-constrained Vision Problems.- Pose Estimation and Feature Tracking for Robot Assisted Surgery with Medical Imaging.- A Sliding Window Filter for Incremental SLAM.- Topological and Metric Robot Localization through Computer Vision Techniques.- More Vision for SLAM.- Maps, Objects and Contexts for Robots.- Vision-Based Navigation Strategies.- Image-Based Visual Servoing with Extra Task Related Constraints in a General Framework for Sensor-Based Robot Systems.

From the reviews: "'From Features to Actions: Unifying Perspectives in Computational and Robot Vision' was a workshop organized by the editors ... . This book is a collection of interesting research papers presented at that workshop. ... this book provides an overview of the latest research on vision algorithms, including their use and evaluation with robotic applications. ... I believe that this book will be a valuable resource for those interested in robotic vision research." (George K. Adam, ACM Computing Reviews, December, 2008)

• Recent Trends in Computational and Robot Vision.- Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception.- People Detection Using Multiple Sensors on a Mobile Robot.- Perceiving Objects and Movements to Generate Actions on a Humanoid Robot.- Wald's Sequential Analysis for Time-constrained Vision Problems.- Pose Estimation and Feature Tracking for Robot Assisted Surgery with Medical Imaging.- A Sliding Window Filter for Incremental SLAM.- Topological and Metric Robot Localization through Computer Vision Techniques.- More Vision for SLAM.- Maps, Objects and Contexts for Robots.- Vision-Based Navigation Strategies.- Image-Based Visual Servoing with Extra Task Related Constraints in a General Framework for Sensor-Based Robot Systems.