Welcome to the CVC at Yale university,

The Center for Computational Vision and Control is an alliance of researchers at Yale dedicated to the study of computational theories of vision and to applications of vision, including control of robots. It spans several departments, including computer science, diagnostic radiology, electrical engineering, and psychology.

The main purpose of the center is to foster communication among these diverse groups, in order to maintain a critical mass of researchers with greater scope and visibility than the groups could achieve by themselves. One of the mechanisms for enhancing interdepartmental communication is the series of weekly seminars presented under the title "Vision Lunch." These sometimes involve an outside speaker, sometimes a faculty member or graduate student from Yale. The meetings bring together researchers with different reactions to the material presented, and often stimulate productive conversations about it.

The research issues addressed by the center include:

• How might a robot or an animal extract from an image the information it needs to optimize its behavior?
• What new approaches to control are necessary in order to exploit visual inputs?
• How must control techniques change in order to cope with mobile robots, especially when they are behaving in groups?
• How does long-term planning interface to vision and control?

The Center's primary laboratory facilities are located on the fourth and fifth floors of the Watson building, at 51 Prospect Street. For current projects being housed there and elsewhere, follow the links to web pages of individual CVC members.

Drew McDermott,
Director, CVC.