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...slow for an industrial assembly line. At a well-attended robot exhibition last month in Dearborn, Mich., one of the star attractions was a similar vision system developed by a brand-new company, Machine Intelligence Corp. of Mountain View, Calif. This firm was founded in 1978 by Charles Rosen, 63, a tall, tousledhaired veteran of 21 years at SRI. Says he of his new vision system: "It's still only the beginning...
...Rosen's system consists of a black-and-white TV camera that scans objects against a brightly lighted background, then transmits to a computer the hundreds of dots (or pixels) that form the TV image. The computer transforms these dots into binary code and compares what it sees with previously recorded descriptions of various objects. It compares features like perimeter and area, enabling it to recognize and choose among nine different objects. "Ten years from now," says Rosen, "this will be a dodo...
...Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., engineers are already pushing one step further into a technique called "gray-imaging." Similar to Rosen's system but more elaborate, the Lockheed method uses a camera image that contains 100,000 different dots, each graded from 0 for pure white to 255 for pure black. The different shades of gray give the robot a much clearer three-dimensional view of what it is confronting...
Smaller firms that lack large research departments often use desktop computers to turn a stack of complex statistics into easy-to-read charts. Rosen Research, a Manhattan firm that studies the electronics industry, recently used its Apple II personal computer for such a job. The cost: 40? for a graphic illustration, compared with $80 each when prepared by a professional designer...
...purpose of Side by Side is to bring celebrities to Harvard so that students can learn of their industry in an intimate setting," Carla Rosen '82, executive board member of Side by Side, said last night. The organization will host appearances by actor Richard Jordan '59 and actress Lauren Bacall later this semester...