From: jwatts1970@hotmail.com   
      
   Hi,   
      
   What is the current state-of-the-art with respect to 'computer vision' and   
   the recognition of 3-dimensional objects?   
      
   I read somewhere that a bit of a holy grail at the moment would be to allow   
   a computer to have the 3D object recognition of a 4yr old child?  I'm   
   surprised we're not near that yet?  Is that true?   
      
   What is the basic problem with vision?  Is it because the thing is so   
   reliant on heavy processing?  Would the field be improved by the increase in   
   raw computing power or are we still missing fundamental understanding of the   
   problem?   
      
   Regards   
   Jeremy Watts   
      
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