Sensing to Cognition: The Evolution of Robotic Vision
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines".
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Robotic vision has evolved from basic sensing to advanced cognitive functions, such as object recognition, scene understanding, and autonomous decision-making. Powered by deep learning and visual reasoning, robots are now integral to tasks in autonomous navigation, industrial automation, and human–robot interaction. This Special Issue focuses on recent advances that bridge low-level perception and high-level cognition, especially in dynamic, unstructured environments. Particular attention is given to embodied visual perception, where perception is shaped by physical interaction with the environment, and to multi-robot visual collaboration, enabling distributed robotic systems to jointly interpret and respond to their surroundings. We invite original research and reviews in areas including deep/reinforcement learning for robotic perception; 3D vision and spatial reasoning; visual understanding in human–robot interaction; vision-based scene analysis and decision-making; embodied perception; and multi-robot coordination. This Special Issue seeks to foster interdisciplinary exchange and highlight innovations that drive intelligent visual systems from perception to cognition.
Prof. Dr. Xiangjun Zou
Prof. Dr. Xiaojuan Li
Dr. Junfeng Gao
Dr. Fengyun Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- robotic vision
- deep learning for visual perception
- reinforcement learning in robotics
- 3D perception and spatial reasoning
- scene understanding
- visual reasoning and cognition
- autonomous navigation
- embodied perception
- multi-robot visual collaboration
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