Neural Computation
Spring 1989, Vol. 1, No. 1, Pages 82-91
(doi: 10.1162/neco.1989.1.1.82)
Part Segmentation for Object Recognition
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Abstract
Visual object recognition is a difficult problem that has been solved by biological visual systems. An approach to object recognition is described in which the image is segmented into parts using two simple, biologically-plausible mechanisms: a filtering operation to produce a large set of potential object “parts,” followed by a new type of network that searches among these part hypotheses to produce the simplest, most likely description of the image's part structure.