Visual object concept discovery: Observations in congenitally blind children, and a computational approach

Neurocomputing

Volumn 70, Issue 13-15, 2007, Pages 2218-2233

  Bouvrie, Jake V ^a   Sinha, Pawan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face detection; Holistic object recognition; Object concept learning; Recovery from blindness; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DEMONSTRATIONS; FACE RECOGNITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; OBJECT CONCEPT LEARNING; RECOVERY FROM BLINDNESS;

COMPUTER VISION;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACE PROFILE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDIA; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 34249671332     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2006.01.035     Document Type: Article

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