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Integrated Split/Merge Image Segmentation
Kenneth I. Laws

The KNIFE segmentation algorithm interleaves splitting and merging of regions during mono-chrome or multiband image partitioning. KNIFE splits regions along object boundaries, thus avoiding rectangular quadtree artifacts and establishing a context for good statistical decisions.

Jul, 1988 Journal Download PDF Details
Interactive Aids For Cartography and Photo Interpretation
H.G. Barrow, Thomas D. Garvey, Jan H. Kremers, J.M. Tenenbaum, & H.C. Wolf

This report covers the six-month period October 1975 to April 1976. In this report, the application areas of ARPA-supported Machine Vision work at SRI were changed to Cartography and Photointerpretation.

Jan, 1977 Journal Download PDF Details
Interpretation As Abduction
Jerry R. Hobbs, Mark E. Stickel, Douglas E. Appelt, & Paul Martin

Abduction is inference to the best explanation. In the TACITUS project at SRI we have developed an approach to abductive inference, called "weighted abduction," that has resulted in a significant simplification of how the problem of interpreting texts is conceptualized.

Mar, 1990 Journal Download PDF Details
Interpreting Discourse: Coherence and The Analysis Of, Ethnographic Interviews
M. Agar, & Jerry R. Hobbs

The data we analyze is from a series of life history interviews with a career heroin addict in New York, collected by Agar (1981). We analyze this data in terms of a combination of two AI approaches to discourse.

Aug, 1980 Journal Download PDF Details
Interpreting Natural-Language Utterances In Dialogs About Tasks
Ann E. Robinson, Douglas E. Appelt, Barbara J. Grosz, Gary G. Hendrix, & Jane J. Robinson

This paper describes the results of a three-year research effort investigating the knowledge and processes needed for participation in natural-language dialogs about ongoing mechanical-assembly tasks.

Mar, 1980 Journal Download PDF Details
Interpreting Perspective Images
Stephen T. Barnard

A fundamental problem in computer vision is how to determine the 3-D spatial orientation of curves and surfaces appearing in an image.

Nov, 1982 Journal Download PDF Details
Introducing The Tileworld: Experimentally Evaluating Agent Architectures
Martha E. Pollack, & Marc Ringuette

We describe a system called Tileworld, which consists of a simulated robot agent and a simulated environment which is both dynamic and unpredictable. Both the agent and the environment are highly parameterized, enabling one to control certain characteristics of each.

May, 1990 Journal Download PDF Details
Investigating The Process Of Natural Language Communication
Ann E. Robinson

This paper provides an overview of an ongoing research program on natural language communications, indicating its status as of June 1978, and its short term goals.

Jul, 1978 Journal Download PDF Details
Investigation of a Common Training Procedure for Remote and Rapid Design, Repair and Redesign of Devices
Nils J. Nilsson

The main object of this proposed research program is to investigate the hitherto unrealized possibility of using one training procedures as the common means to rapidly and remotely design, repair, and redesign devices.

Apr, 1963 Journal Download PDF Details
Is "Sometimes" Sometimes Better Than "Always"?; Intermittent, Assertion In Proving Program Correctness
Zohar Manna, & Richard J. Waldinger

This paper explores a technique for proving the correctness and termination of programs simultaneously.

Jun, 1976 Journal Download PDF Details