Research Progress

MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory The MIT AI Laboratory has a long tradition of research in most aspects of Artificial Intelligence. Currently, the major foci include computer vision, manipulation, learning, Englishlanguage understanding, VLSI design, expert engineering problem solving, commonsense reasoning, computer architecture, distributed problem solving, models of human memory, programmer apprentices, and human education. Understanding Visual Images Professor Berthold K. P. Horn and his students have studied intensively the image irradiance equation and its applications. The reflectance and albedo map representations have been introduced to make surface orientation, illumination geometry, and surface reflectivity explicit. Recent work has centered on modelling the effects of the atmosphere which distort intensity values and make classification of terrain and related computations using the albedo map inaccurate.