| ECVision indexed and annotated bibliography of cognitive computer vision publications This bibliography was created by Hilary Buxton and Benoit Gaillard, University of Sussex, as part of ECVision Specific Action 8-1 The complete text version of this BibTeX file is available here: ECVision_bibliography.bib
B. Draper and A Hanson and E. Riseman
ABSTRACT
The knowledge-directed approach to image interpretation, popular in the 1980's, sought to identify objects in unconstrained two-dimensional images and to determine the threedimensional relationships between these objects and the camera by applying large amounts of object- and domain-specific knowledge to the interpretation problem. Among the primary issues faced by these systems were variations among instances of an object class and differences in how object classes were defined in terms of shape, color, function, texture, size, and/or substructures. This paper argues that knowledge-directed vision systems typically failed for two reasons. The first is that the low- and mid-level vision procedures that were relied upon to perform the basic tasks of vision were too immature at the time to support the ambitious interpretation goals of these systems. This problem, we conjecture, has been largely solved by recent advances in the field of 3D computer vision, particularly in stereo and shape reconstruction from multiple views. The other impediment was that the control problem for vision procedures was never properly addressed as an independent problem. This paper reviews the issues confronted by knowledge-directed vision systems, and concludes that inadequate vision procedures and the lack of a control formalism blocked their further development. We then briefly introduce several new projects which, although still in the early stage of development, are addressing the complex control issues that continue to obstruct the development of robust knowledgedirected vision systems. |
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