Generic Solution for Image Object Recognition Based on Vision Cognition Theory

  • Aimin Wu
  • De Xu
  • Xu Yang
  • Jianhui Zheng
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3614)

Abstract

Human vision system can understand images quickly and accurately, but it is impossible to design a generic computer vision system to challenge this task at present. The most important reason is that computer vision community is lack of effective collaborations with visual psychologists, because current object recognition systems use only a small subset of visual cognition theory. We argue that it is possible to put forward a generic solution for image object recognition if the whole vision cognition theory of different schools and different levels can be systematically integrated into an inherent computing framework from the perspective of computer science. In this paper, we construct a generic object recognition solution, which absorbs the pith of main schools of vision cognition theory. Some examples illustrate the feasibility and validity of this solution.

Keywords

Object recognition Generic solution Visual cognition theory Knowledge 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Aimin Wu
    • 1
    • 2
  • De Xu
    • 1
  • Xu Yang
    • 1
  • Jianhui Zheng
    • 2
  1. 1.Dept. of Computer Science & TechnologyBeijing Jiaotong Univ.BeijingChina
  2. 2.Dongying Vocational CollegeShandongChina

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