Artificial Vision

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Computing with/on Images

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Toward visual languages

11.2.1 Pictorial languages

11.2.2 Characteristic patterns

11.2.3 Description languages

11.2.4 A generalization of the concept of description.

11.3 Visual sentences

11.3.1 An insight on the relation between images and descriptions

11.3.2 Image analysis, synthesis and visual reasoning revisited.

11.4 Visual languages

11.5 A walk through existing systems based on visual languages

11.6 Conclusions

11.1 INTRODUCTION

In the recent years, the problem of reasoning with/on images has been addressed from several points of view. In Reiter and Mackworth (1989/90), for example, the problem of image interpretation and depiction is considered, in Wang and Lee (1993) that of ...