Optimization in model matching and perceptual organization

  • Authors:
  • Eric Mjolsness;Gene Gindi;P. Anandan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA;Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA;Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

  • Venue:
  • Neural Computation
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

We introduce an optimization approach for solving problems in computer vision that involve multiple levels of abstraction. Our objective functions include compositional and specialization hierarchies. We cast vision problems as inexact graph matching problems, formulate graph matching in terms of constrained optimization, and use analog neural networks to perform the optimization. The method is applicable to perceptual grouping and model matching. Preliminary experimental results are shown.