The Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM), McGill University, was of?cially c- ated on November13th, 1985, upon approvalby the University Senate. The mission of the centre is, since its inception, to excel in the ?eld of intelligent systems, stressing basic research, technology development and education. Intelligent - chines are understood, along these lines, as systems capable of adapting their go- oriented behavior by sensing and interpreting their environment, making decisions and plans, and then carrying out those plans using physical actions. Research - tivities of interest to CIM...

The science associated with the development of artificial sen sory systems is occupied primarily with determining how information about the world can be extracted from sensory data. For example, computational vision is, for the most part, concerned with the de velopment of algorithms for distilling information about the world and recognition of various objects in the environ (e. g. localization ment) from visual images (e. g. photographs or video frames). There are often a multitude of ways in which a specific piece of informa tion about the world can be obtained from sensory data. A subarea...