Visual has always been recognized as one of the most important sensory systems involved in the implementation of many athletic skills because of the close and necessary relationship with performing the movements, and it is considered particularly important by specialists in learning and motor control. Today, in addition to assessing the key indices in athletic performance (physical, medical, ps...

In this contribution we describe a visual marker-less realtime tracking system for Augmented Reality applications. The system uses a fisheye lens mounted on a firewire camera with 10 fps for visual tracking of 3D scene points without any prior scene knowledge. All visual-geometric data is acquired online during the tracking using a structure-frommotion approach. 2D Image features in the hemisph...

Shaping is a way in which a human designer can provide assistance to a learning system to enable it to solve problems that would otherwise defeat it. Results are presented showing that shaping can significantly improve the final performance of controllers evolved for a difficult visual tracking task. Controllers are developed in simulation and then transferred to a real robot head.