The Future Directions of Visual Common Sense & Recognition: A Summation of Workshop Findings has been released for the public.
This report is the product of a workshop held November 12–13, 2015 in Arlington, VA on the future of Computer Vision research. It is intended as a resource to the S&T community including the broader federal funding community, federal laboratories, domestic industrial base, and academia.
"Over the past century, science and technology has brought remarkable new capabilities to all sectors of the economy; from telecommunications, energy, and electronics to medicine, transportation and defense. Technologies that were fantasy decades ago, such as the internet and mobile devices, now inform the way we live, work, and interact with our environment. Key to this technological progress is the capacity of the global basic research community to create new knowledge and to develop new insights in science, technology, and engineering. Understanding the trajectories of this fundamental research, within the context of global challenges, empowers stakeholders to identify and seize potential opportunities.
The Future Directions Workshop series, sponsored by the Basic Research Office of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, seeks to examine emerging research and engineering areas that are most likely to transform future technology capabilities..."