Perceptual Organization and Visual Recognition

COMPUTER VISION is a field of research that encompasses many objectives. A primary goal has been to construct visual sensors that can provide general—purpose robots with the same information about their surroundings as we receive from our own visual senses. This book takes an important step towards this goal by describing a working computer vision system named SCERPO. This system can recognize known three—dimensional objects in ordinary black—and—white images taken from unknown viewpoints, ...