Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 3 (1995)187-222
ReSubmitted 5/95; published 10/95
(c) 1995 AI Access Foundation and Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. All rights reserved. Learning Membership Functions in a Function-Based Object Recognition System



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Learning Membership Functions in a Function-Based Object Recognition System

Kevin Woods woods@bigpine.csee.usf.edu
Computer Science & Engineering
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 33620-5399

Diane Cook cook@centauri.uta.edu
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019

Lawrence Hall hall@waterfall.csee.usf.edu
Kevin Bowyer kwb@bigpine.csee.usf.edu
Computer Science & Engineering
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 33620-5399

Louise Stark stark@napa.eng.uop.edu
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA 95211

Abstract:

Functionality-based recognition systems recognize objects at the category level by reasoning about how well the objects support the expected function. Such systems naturally associate a ``measure of goodness" or ``membership value" with a recognized object. This measure of goodness is the result of combining individual measures, or membership values, from potentially many primitive evaluations of different properties of the object's shape. A membership function is used to compute the membership value when evaluating a primitive of a particular physical property of an object. In previous versions of a recognition system known as GRUFF, the membership function for each of the primitive evaluations was hand-crafted by the system designer. In this paper, we provide a learning component for the GRUFF system, called OMLET, that automatically learns membership functions given a set of example objects labeled with their desired category measure. The learning algorithm is generally applicable to any problem in which low-level membership values are combined through an and-or tree structure to give a final overall membership value.





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