Significant Contributions To Robotics and Computer Vision
With regard to the groundbreaking contributions made by Kak and his collaborators: In 1989, Chen and Kak published 3D-POLY that is still the fastest algorithm for recognizing 3D objects in depth maps. In 1992, Kosaka and Kak published FINALE, which is considered to be a computationally efficient and highly robust approach to vision-based navigation by indoor mobile robots. In 2003, a group of researchers that included Kak developed a tool for content-based image retrieval that was demonstrated by clinical trials to markedly improve the performance of radiologists. This remains the only clinically evaluated system for content-based image retrieval for radiologists.
A talk by Avinash Kak (available as a PDF file) that is making the rounds on the internet is titled (provocatively/amusingly) Why Robots Will Never Have Sex. This talk is supposed to be a rejoinder to those who believe that robots/computers will someday take over the world.
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