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Acknowledgments

Support of the underlying research by the Deutsche Forschungs-Gemeinschaft
(DFG), by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT), by
the German Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg), by the Research branch of the
European Union, and by the industrial firms Daimler-Benz AG (now
DaimlerChrysler), Dornier GmbH (now EADS Friedrichshafen), and VDO
(Frankfurt, now part of Siemens Automotive) through funding is appreciated.
Through the German Federal Ministry of Defense, of which UniBw Munich is a
part, cooperation in the European and the Trans-Atlantic framework has been
supported; the project “AutoNav” as part of an American-German Memorandum of
Understanding has contributed to developing “expectation-based, multifocal,
saccadic” (EMS) vision by fruitful exchanges of methods and hardware with the
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburgh, and with
Sarnoff Research of SRI, Princeton.
The experimental platforms have been developed and maintained over several
generations of electronic hardware by Ingenieurbüro Zinkl (VaMoRs), Daimler-
Benz AG (VaMP), and by the staff of our electromechanical shop, especially J.
Hollmayer, E. Oestereicher, and T. Hildebrandt. The first-generation vision
systems have been provided by the Institut für Messtechnik of UniBwM/LRT.
Smooth operation of the general PC-infrastructure is owed to H. Lex of the Institut
für Systemdynamik und Flugmechanik (UniBwM /LRT/ ISF).