High-Level Perception and Low-Level Vision: Bridging the Semantic Gap
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Organizers: Melanie Mitchell (Portland State University and SFI), Garrett Kenyon (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Dates: October 8-10, 2007
Description of Workshop: The "semantic gap" describes the current inability of computer vision
systems to connect low-level visual descriptions with the high-level
conceptual schemas and analogies. Similarly, neuroscientists and
psychophysicists have uncovered many of the physiological and
perceptual mechanisms underlying various stages of visual processing,
yet the interactions and transformations between levels remains
obscure. The purpose of this workshop is to address how the semantic
gap might be bridged, both in natural and computer vision, and to see
if a set of common principles of visual understanding can be
discovered from the collective, multidisciplinary knowledge of the
participants.