A Knowledge - Based Approach To Computer Vision Systems

In des igning and co ns tructing computer vi s ion systems. m any c ruc ia l iss ues need to be addressed . Fo remost of these a re the control and o rga nizat ion of the vi s ual in formation process ing tasks involved. and the re prese ntatio n and usage of both know ledge and data . As co mpu ter vi sion s ys tem s ha ve evo lved . grow ing in compl exity and si ze. these iss ues have become increasingly important to the ir overa ll s uccess . In this paper, a rece nt and increas ing ly po pular approac h to image unders t a nding , the know ledgebased system , is presented as a fr amework in which to dea l with these issues . The engineerin g of a com pute r vision system as a knowledgebased system and these iss ues, in the context of our e vo lving system is di scussed .