"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-329) and index.

The Problem of Representation -- A Vision of Representation -- Reconstruction -- Representation without Reconstruction -- The Feature Detector Redux -- The Challenge -- Theories of Representation and Object Recognition -- Recognition-Related Tasks That Require Representation -- Identification and Generalization -- Categorization -- Analogy -- A Formalization of the Notion of Representation -- The Problem of Representation -- Representation as a Mapping -- First- and Second-Order Isomorphism -- Computational Theories of Recognition -- Reconstructionist Theories: A Brief Historical Perspective -- Structural Decomposition Theories -- Theories Based on Geometric Constraints -- Multidimensional Feature Spaces -- S-isomorphism: The Theory -- Similarity as Proximity in a Metric Space -- Some Common Objections -- A Metric Similarity Space as a Working Hypothesis -- Shape Spaces -- Kendall's Shape Space -- Transformations and Deformations -- Best-Correspondence Distance -- An Objective Shape Space -- Parameterization of Distal Shape Space -- Scope of Parameterization -- Dimensionality of Parameterization -- The Distal to Proximal Mapping -- Levels of Representation of Similarity -- The Components of the Mapping F -- Constraints on F -- Implications -- S-isomorphism: An Implementation -- Task-Dependent Treatment of the Measurement Space -- Identification ("Is this an image of object X?") -- Recognition ("Is this an image of something I know?") -- Categorization ("What is this thing?") -- Categorization as Navigation in Shape Space.

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English.

Shimon Edelman bases a comprehensive approach to visual representation on the notion of correspondence between proximal (internal) and distal similarities in objects.