Cooperative spatial reasoning for image understanding

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 205-227

  Matsuyama, Takashi ^a   Wada, Toshikazu ^b,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooperative distributed problem solving; Hypothesis and test analysis; Image understanding; Multi agent system; Region segmentation; Spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004449580     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001497000093     Document Type: Article

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