| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 335 pages) : illustrations |
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text file PDF |
| Series |
Bradford book.
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| Note |
"A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-329) and index. |
| Contents |
The Problem of Representation -- A Vision of Representation -- Reconstruction -- Representation without Reconstruction -- The Feature Detector Redux -- The Challenge -- Theories of Representation and Object Recognition -- Recognition-Related Tasks That Require Representation -- Identification and Generalization -- Categorization -- Analogy -- A Formalization of the Notion of Representation -- The Problem of Representation -- Representation as a Mapping -- First- and Second-Order Isomorphism -- Computational Theories of Recognition -- Reconstructionist Theories: A Brief Historical Perspective -- Structural Decomposition Theories -- Theories Based on Geometric Constraints -- Multidimensional Feature Spaces -- S-isomorphism: The Theory -- Similarity as Proximity in a Metric Space -- Some Common Objections -- A Metric Similarity Space as a Working Hypothesis -- Shape Spaces -- Kendall's Shape Space -- Transformations and Deformations -- Best-Correspondence Distance -- An Objective Shape Space -- Parameterization of Distal Shape Space -- Scope of Parameterization -- Dimensionality of Parameterization -- The Distal to Proximal Mapping -- Levels of Representation of Similarity -- The Components of the Mapping F -- Constraints on F -- Implications -- S-isomorphism: An Implementation -- Task-Dependent Treatment of the Measurement Space -- Identification ("Is this an image of object X?") -- Recognition ("Is this an image of something I know?") -- Categorization ("What is this thing?") -- Categorization as Navigation in Shape Space. |
| Language |
English. |
| Summary |
Shimon Edelman bases a comprehensive approach to visual representation on the notion of correspondence between proximal (internal) and distal similarities in objects. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Visual perception.
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Mental representation.
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Visualization.
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Recognition (Psychology)
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Categorization (Psychology)
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Cognitive science.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Edelman, Shimon. Representation and recognition in vision. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999 0262050579 (DLC) 98039260 (OCoLC)39868127 |
| ISBN |
0585077304 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585077307 (electronic bk.) |
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9780262050579 (hc ; alk. paper) |
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0262050579 (hc ; alk. paper) |
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0262272156 |
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9780262272155 |
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0262050579 |
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