Intelligent Perceptual Systems

Gestalt problems in cognitive psychology: Field theory, invariance and auto-organisation.- Neural network learning in an ecological and evolutionary context.- Trends in pattern recognition.- Computer vision systems: Functionality and structure integration.- On the use of auditory models in speech technology.- Automatic speech recognition with neural networks: Beyond nonparametric models.- New shape from Shading methods.- Orientation-dependent effects in neural networks.- Identification of pattern dimensionality by self-organization.- A Markovian model for perceptual grouping of different shape primitives.- Segmented image reduction.- Design and acquisition of a task-oriented spontaneous-speech database.- Language and ambiguity.- Spatial Logic for image representation and retrieval-by-contents.- Communication among perceiving agents.- Perception of mental states from communication.- Perceptual grouping for scene interpretation in an active vision system.- Using viewer-centered representations in machine vision.- A non-linear integration process for the selection of visual information.- Distributed perceptive paradigms: Preliminary statements.- Anticipatory tracking of a moving object.- A time-to-crash detector based on area expansions: Example of an opto-motor reflex.- “Intelligent” telepresence: Introducing virtual reality in advanced robots.