TR available: representation by similarity to prototypes

[Edelman Shimon]

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On Similarity to Prototypes in 3D Object Representation

Sharon Duvdevani-Bar and Shimon Edelman

Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
The Weizmann Institute of Science

A representational scheme under which the ranking between represented
dissimilarities is isomorphic to the ranking between the corresponding
shape dissimilarities can support perfect shape classification,
because it preserves the clustering of shapes according to the natural
kinds prevailing in the external world.  We discuss the computational
requirements of rank-preserving representation, and examine its
plausibility within a prototype-based framework of shape vision.
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-Shimon

Shimon Edelman, Applied Math & CS, Weizmann Institute
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~edelman/shimon.html
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