Update - April 23rd

Overall, our prospects look good. We've found several great web pages and a good book all on stereo vision. Here are a few links...
Stere-Vision
Stereovision by Coherence Detection
Stereo Vision

Initially, our system model was this:
Edge-detection - Segmentation - Correlation - Geometric Analysis

But now, we've been exposed to a few ideas we hadn't seen, such as coherence-detection and disparity-mapping. We've found several different algorithms we could use, but we have to understand the principles to implement them in Matlab.

We've made our own data by taking pictures several inches apart, then developing, scanning, and cropping. But there is plenty of available data on the web! Hoorah! Over the next week, we will attempt to code some of the algorithms we've found.