“…In fact, active vision (Aloimonos et al, 1988; Bajcsy, 1988) - the use of motion to acquire pertinent sensing information about an environment - is a recurrent theme in robotics. It arises in many applications, for instance, in robotic manipulation (Jang et al, 2008; Motai and Kosaka, 2008), surveillance (Bakhtari et al, 2009; Schroeter et al, 2009), tracking (Barreto et el., 2010), object modeling (Pito, 1999), localization and mapping (Fintrop and Jensfelt, 2008; Kaess and Dellaert, 2010; Zingaretti and Frontoni, 2006), and object recognition (see below), to name but a few. A rich survey of active vision methods used in robotic systems is given in Chen et al (2011).…”