In an exclusive video created for Fast Company, Karin Fong (number 88 on our Most Creative People list) and her team at Imaginary Forces put together a behind the scenes look at the creation of the "Machine Vision" used in the film Terminator Salvation. To render believable images of how a robot might see in the year 2018, a combination of military and NASA technology was employed, including a relative of the Mars Rover's optical system called the Bumblebee.
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June 15, 2009 at 10:25am by Barry Dennis
It seems to me that machine/robot/AI "vision" is really the algorithm-the software- that "sees" in different frequencies of light. I suspect that human vision algorithms are not the most efficient for Constructs; infrared and x-ray would offer more information, even though in certain circumsttances-paint ball competition- handicapping the Artificials would be necessary. Knowing how they see may not be as important as the learning and comparison aspects. AI's may have to learn how to "dump" excess information after correlation and comparison programs determine what to select and where to store the data., as humans do, without the sleep requirement.
Even today,Industrial "robots" need for vision is limkmited to the task at hand. "Seeing" beyond the widget in hand to be stamped, rotated or machined is unnecessary.
THe X generation of Terminators would be unstoppable.