• DOI:10.1037/0033-295X.94.2.115
Corpus ID: 8054340

Recognition-by-components: a theory of human image understanding.

@article{Biederman1987RecognitionbycomponentsAT,
  title={Recognition-by-components: a theory of human image understanding.},
  author={I. Biederman},
  journal={Psychological review},
  year={1987},
  volume={94 2},
  pages={
          115-147
        }
}

I. Biederman

Published 1987

Mathematics, Medicine

Psychological review

The perceptual recognition of objects is conceptualized to be a process in which the image of the input is segmented at regions of deep concavity into an arrangement of simple geometric components, such as blocks, cylinders, wedges, and cones. The fundamental assumption of the proposed theory, recognition-by-components (RBC), is that a modest set of generalized-cone components, called geons (N £ 36), can be derived from contrasts of five readily detectable properties of edges in a two… CONTINUE READING

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