2D Images and 3D Object Analysis and Recognition - An Intelligent Approach
by
Patrick Wang
College of Computer Sci., Northeastern University, USA
Coauthors: Keynote Lecture

How do people learn and recognize things? These amazing capabilities have been taken for granted for years. Until recently, when one tries to use computers or machines to do things like recognizing handwritten characters, it becomes clear that such seemingly trivial tasks by human being turn out extremely difficult, if not impossible, by mechanical means such as computers. After decades of rigorous attacks, such research is still as fresh as ever, and such mystery as for how human beings can do it remains largely unknown. In a sense, up to date, ``human brain" is still the ``smartest" or the ``most intelligent" mechanism than any computer can provide. In a way, the study of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence techniques has attracted more and more interests and attention. This talk intends to get some inside views of PR techniques using AI methodologies, and its applications to represent, learn, understand and recognize characters/words, one of the most popular, interesting, complicated and difficult languages in the world.

The speaker intends to conduct an on-line real time demo in this talk, on the internet : http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pwang/ObjectRecognition/

Date received: February 18, 1999