A paradigm for semantic picture recognition

摘要

This paper presents the results of research into the development of a semantic-based picture recognition technique. The need for such a technique is reflected in the limitations of syntactic picture recognition techniques, which are discussed in detail. The motivation for developing a semantic-based technique arises from a few intuitive notions described in the paper. A paradigm for semantic picture recognition is realized in the development of a general procedure which makes explicit use of contextual information and bases recognition on intensional class descriptions.