Research report 2012 - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen site
Perceiving Systems – Computers that see
Authors
Gehler, Peter Vincent
Departments
Perzeptive Systeme
Summary
Our research goal is to define in a mathematical precise way how visual perception works. We want to describe how intelligent systems understand images. To this end we study probabilistic models and statistical learning. Encoding prior knowledge about the world is complemented with automatic learning from training data. One aspect is being able to identify physical factors in images, such as lighting, geometry, and materials. Furthermore we want to automatically recognize and give names to objects and persons in images and understand the scene as a whole.