Three-dimensional object recognition

M. J. Tarr, P. Williams, W. G. Hayward and I. Gauthier, "Three-Dimensional Object Recognition is Viewpoint Dependent," Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 1, No 4, 1998. pp275-277.

It is a little against Biederman's RBC (recognition-by-components) which is based on geons and their relations. Biederman's geons are viewpoint independent. This paper says they are not independent.

Obviously, object recognition is a viewpoint-dependent process. So this paper makes more sense. And this paper makes a way to connect this whole things to X which means a lot to me*.
One thing more interesting is one of the assumptions of whole this geon theory, which is that recognition of individual geons are equally accurate. Actually in real pattern recognition, it is a big deal. We should handle this first, if we want this theory.

* X refers to something that I am currently working on.

- H. Choi