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Shape Understanding System

Machine Understanding and Human Understanding

  • Recent research in Shape Understanding Systems
  • Presents new results on machine understanding and knowledge implementation
  • Written by experts in the field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI, volume 588)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    • Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les
    Pages 1-9
  3. Understanding

    • Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les
    Pages 11-23
  4. Understanding Systems

    • Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les
    Pages 25-33
  5. Machine Understanding—Human Understanding

    • Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les
    Pages 35-48
  6. Machine Understanding

    • Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les
    Pages 49-71
  7. Categories

    • Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les
    Pages 73-96
  8. Problem Solving

    • Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les
    Pages 97-129
  9. Visual Understanding

    • Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les
    Pages 131-163
  10. Understanding Signs

    • Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les
    Pages 165-196
  11. Understanding Text

    • Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les
    Pages 197-228
  12. Understanding Explanations

    • Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les
    Pages 229-245
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 247-256

About this book

This is the third book presenting selected results of research on the further development of the shape understanding system (SUS) carried out by authors in the newly founded Queen Jadwiga Research Institute of Understanding. In this book the new term Machine Understanding is introduced referring to a new area of research aiming to investigate the possibility of building machines with the ability to understand. It is presented that SUS needs to some extent mimic human understanding and for this reason machines are evaluated according to the rules applied for the evaluation of human understanding. The book shows how to formulate problems and how it can be tested if the machine is able to solve these problems.

Authors and Affiliations

  • The Queen Jadwiga Research Institute of Understanding, Toorak, Australia

    Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Shape Understanding System

  • Book Subtitle: Machine Understanding and Human Understanding

  • Authors: Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les

  • Series Title: Studies in Computational Intelligence

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14197-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14196-1Published: 17 March 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35457-6Published: 05 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14197-8Published: 06 February 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1860-949X

  • Series E-ISSN: 1860-9503

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 256

  • Number of Illustrations: 99 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence

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eBook USD 84.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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