[comp.ai.neural-nets] feature recognition

peretz@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Samuel R. Peretz) (06/06/91)

Does anyone out there do any work on recognition of "general"
features, i.e. features that can only be described in terms of
general properties?  I am working on designing a network which will
be able to look at bitmapped images (they've been thresholded, so
they're binary), and determine whether there is any kind of
general feature present (e.g. a "blob", a "band", a "donut", etc.).
If anyone has any references on work such as this, I'd be very
grateful.

Two other peripheral questions:  I need a good image-processing
reference book; I am particularly interested in one that deals with
thresholding of grey-scale images as a preprocessing technique.  Also,
I was wondering if there exists any kind of book with numerical-type
algorithms in Common Lisp--something along the same lines as the
"Numerical Recipes in C" type of books.

					--Sam Peretz


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