eTRIMS - E-Training for Interpreting Images of Man-Made Scenes
 
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Middle layer in a scene interpretation system

Kasim Terzić, Bernd Neumann
Cognitive Systems Laboratory
University of Hamburg
June, 2008

A middle layer module called "Matchbox" has been developed which mediates between low-level image analysis and high-level interpretation. It can take input from a number of image-analysis modules and map it to specific object views in a generic fashion. It can also confirm and refute hypotheses during the interpretation process by evaluating the available supporting evidence.

The Matchbox probabilistically relates a discrete set of evidence type descriptors to instances of high-level objects. The evidence type descriptors can be evidence classes of a specialised detector (e.g. the Prague T-Window detector) or information automatically extracted from the unclassified evidence (such as shape descriptors calculated from the London blob detector).



References

[1] Lothar Hotz, Bernd Neumann and Kasim Terzić 2008
High Level Expectations for Low-Level Image Processing, KI2008 (accepted)
[2] K. Terzić, L. Hotz, B. Neumann 2007
Division of Work During Behaviour Recognition - The SCENIC Approach, Workshop on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation, KI-2007