JHC%OZ.AI.MIT.EDU@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (03/18/86)
[Forwarded from the MIT bboard by SAWS@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU.] Thursday , March 20 4:00pm Room: NE43- 8th floor Playroom The Artificial Intelligence Lab Revolving Seminar Series LEARNING SYMBOLIC OBJECT MODELS FROM IMAGES Jonathan Connell AI Lab, MIT This talk will present the results of an implemented system for learning structural prototypes of objects directly from gray-scale images. The vision component of this system employs Brady's Smoothed Local Symmetries to divide an object into parts which are then described symbolically. The learning component takes these descriptions and forms a model of the examples presented in a manner similar to Winston's ANALOGY program. The problem of matching complex structured descriptions and the difficult task of reasoning about function from form will also be briefly discussed. Refreshments at 3:30