I try to avoid the "other discussion" list so I'll post here as it is "tech". If this post gets moved there, just delete it or pull my name from it.

I was searching for information on the new class of collaborative robots #, randomly came across this university, looked through the project list and came across this:

Robotics Institute: Multi-view Car Detection and Registration



Car detection and registration has many applications in the real world such as automated surveillance, image search and retrieval, intelligent vehicles, and robot navigation. We have been developing a method for multi-view car detection from still images. In particular, we deal with cars at eight different viewpoints (shown in Fig 1. Five of them are invariant due to the symmetry). We have collected over 7,000 car images of city scenes. For each image, we label a set of landmark points which are used to align each sample into a reference shape. Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 show the averaged car images and their shape deformations.

# Universal Robots UR 5 and UR 10 Universal Robots - Flexible, silent, low-cost robot arms , Rethink Robotics Baxter www.rethinkrobotics.com/products/baxterare a few examples.