Lost & Found in the Supermarket
The eyes (and the brain) have it
Research staff and students in the Department of Information Engineering in CECS are part of a worldwide endeavour to solve this problem. The team hit on the idea of locating and identifying products on supermarket shelves to test and develop complex software for use in a range of applications in computer vision.
And when you consider the automatic decisions that we take for granted when shopping, from finding the correct aisle, walking down it, and then locating one box of cereal (size, shape, colour, weight) from amongst all the other boxes of cereal (different sizes, brands, shapes, packaging, etc) you get an idea of how complex the task really is.
Read more about the research in ANU Reporter, Summer 2008
