High-Level Vision: Object Recognition and Visual Cognition

By Shimon Ullman

Shimon Ullman focuses on the processes of high-level vision that deal with the interpretation and use of what is seen in the image.

In this book, Shimon Ullman focuses on the processes of high-level vision that deal with the interpretation and use of what is seen in the image. In particular, he examines two major problems. The first, object recognition and classification, involves recognizing objects despite large variations in appearance caused by changes in viewing position, illumination, occlusion, and object shape. The second, visual cognition, involves the extraction of shape properties and spatial relations in the course of performing visual tasks such as object manipulation, planning movements in the environment, or interpreting graphical material such as diagrams, graphs and maps.

The book first takes up object recognition and develops a novel approach to the recognition of three-dimensional objects. It then studies a number of related issues in high-level vision, including object classification, scene segmentation, and visual cognition. Using computational considerations discussed throughout the book, along with psychophysical and biological data, the final chapter proposes a model for the general flow of information in the visual cortex.

Understanding vision is a key problem in the brain sciences, human cognition, and artificial intelligence. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the theories developed in this work, High-Level Vision will be of interest to readers in all three of these fields.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262710072
• ISBN13: 9780262710077
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Computational Vision

Ullman's book is a very difficult book to read thoroughly, but if you can study it carefully over time, great new insights on Vision Science are likely to come out of it. Ullman looks at both reductionist & holist views of Vision, i.e. bottom-up processing, and top-down processing. There are many equations and formulae spread throughout the text. Great book for the serious Vision physiologist.