Tracking animals as if they were stars

Here is a good story in the New scientist on how star pattern recognition was applied to find matching whale shark in the ECOCEAN database

Stanford Racing Team is the winner of the DARPA Grand Challenge

Outstanding! three contestants arrived within 10 minutes of each other!

Seeing things the way a robot does

There are interesting videos from DARPA's National Qualification Event before selections are made on Thursday. They can be found on the CarTV site. In this video, Stanford provides insight in the vision system of their entry. Stanford has their own stock of videos.