C. Urquhart

Turing Institute, University of Strathclyde

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C. Urquhart is a pioneering researcher in the fields of robotic vision, active stereo systems, and biomimetic sensing. Their work focuses on bridging the gap between biological perception and artificial intelligence, particularly through the construction of dynamic, real-time 3D vision systems. Urquhart’s major contributions include the development of the Active Stereo Probe (ASP) project, which aims to recover 3D surfaces from stereo images using a binocular robot head with human-like degrees of freedom and reflex times. Their 1990 paper, "A head called Richard," introduced a robot head with two cameras and microphones, laying the groundwork for biomimetic sensing. The 1993 paper, "Toward real-time dynamic close-range photogrammetry," demonstrated significant advances in scale-space automatic stereo-matching, achieving considerable improvements in 3D surface recovery. Though citation counts are modest (9 and 7), these works are foundational in active vision and photogrammetry, influencing later developments in robotic perception and real-time 3D imaging. Urquhart’s research remains a key reference for students and engineers exploring dynamic, biologically inspired vision systems.