"Spatial structures and spatial reasoning are essential to perception and cognition. Much
day-to-day practical information is about what happens at certain spatial locations....
We pose the recognition problem as data association. In this setting, a novel object is explained solely in terms of a small set of exemplar objects to which it is visually simila...
We present an ontology of objects, functions, and generic shape representation that supports form-function reasoning. By reasoning from the mechanical and other functions of object...
We describe how to model the appearance of a 3-D object using multiple views, learn such a model from training images, and use the model for object recognition. The model uses pro...
Abstract. In many cases, human actions can be identified not only by the singular observation of the human body in motion, but also properties of the surrounding scene and the rel...