Object Recognition, Attention, and Action [Paperback]

Human object recognition is a classical topic both for philosophy and for the natural sciences. Ultimately, understanding of object recognition will be promoted by the cooperation of behavioral research, neurophysiology, and computation. This original book provides an excellent introduction to the issues that are involved. It contains chapters that address the ways in which humans and machines attend to, recognize, and act toward objects in the visual environment.

Human object recognition is a classical topic both for philosophy and for the natural sciences. The idea that visual recognition is action oriented developed in philosophy and psychology but inspired the approaches of sensory-motor integration in physiology and active vision in robotics. Attention, originally a psychological concept, is now a hot topic both for the neurosciences and computer science. Indeed, problems of competition among concurrent processes of data analysis, task requirements, and economic allocation of processing resources remain to be solved. Ultimately, understanding of object recognition will be promoted by the cooperation of behavioral research, neurophysiology, and computation.

This book provides an excellent introduction to the issues that are involved, with chapters that address the ways in which humans and machines attend to, recognize, and act toward objects in the visual environment.

PrefaceAcknowledgementsContributorsAn Editorial Overview I: Object Recognition Occlusion Awaits DisclosureG. Plomp and C. van Leeuwen Functional MRI Evidence for Neural Plasticity at Early Stages ofVisual Processing in HumansS. Schwartz Pattern Recognition in Direct and Indirect ViewH. Strasburger and I. Rentschler Part-Based Strategies for Visual Categorisation and Object RecognitionM. J?ttner Recent Psychophysical and Neural Research in Shape RecognitionI. Biederman Object Recognition in Humans and MachinesC. Wallraven and H. H. B?lthoff Priorló,