A behavior-grounded approach to forming object categories: Separating containers from noncontainers

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 54-69

  Griffith, Shane ^a   Sinapov, Jivko ^a   Sukhoy, Vladimir ^a   Stoytchev, Alexander ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; developmental robotics; intelligent robots; learning systems; object categorization; robots

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL ROBOTICS; OBJECT CATEGORIES; OBJECT CATEGORIZATION; SENSORY MODALITY; VISUAL MODEL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONTAINERS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84858650540     PISSN: 19430604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAMD.2011.2157504     Document Type: Article

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