Expert: Chuck Cosby - 3/23/2008

Question
sir
 i am a student ,doing my engineering in computer science.
me with our college friends are designing a robo.how to implement image processing in it.should we choose matlab ,c or some other?is it possible to process images(by a video cam)and make decision by a robo using image processing?
    please guide me.  

Answer
I don't know much about vision, my work is in natural language understanding.  Nevertheless, i suggest you use commerical software development tools that are in the widest possible use.  Don't use some one-off compiler no has ever heard of.  Also, acedemics and professors are not always in tune with this idea.  but if you ever expect to get a job in the commercial world, you need to be an expert on commercial software platforms.  For example - Microsoft's C#.Net or any Microsoft language or system.  Also, IBM is another good choice.  Having said that, there may be certain things that only these one-off systems can do in the field of vision.  i just don't know.