Reference-tracking: description and explanation

: Reference and Description

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Ecological Explanation between Manipulation and Mechanism Description

Tracking using explanation-based modeling

We study the problem of tracking, namely, estimating the states of physical objects with time, from streams of noisy and unreliable observations. The most common model for the tracking problem is the generative model, which is the basis of solutions such as the Kalman filter and particle filters. In this paper, we consider a different formulation – an explanatory framework – for tracking, and w...

Description Theory and Identifying Reference

Both speaker reference and semantic reference are needed in order to formulate epistemic success conditions for identifying reference and the indirect reference view is generally more adequate for expressing such conditions than the direct reference view, because identification always involves identifying something as something by means of certain distinguishing properties. As both semantic and...

Description-Discrimination Collaborative Tracking

Appearance model is one of the most important components for online visual tracking. An effective appearance model needs to strike the right balance between being adaptive, to account for appearance change, and being conservative, to re-track the object after it loses tracking (e.g., due to occlusion). Most conventional appearance models focus on one aspect out of the two, and hence are not abl...