View-based dynamic object recognition based on human perception

Abstract

Psychophysical studies have shown that humans actively exploit temporal information such as contiguity of images in object recognition. We have recently developed a recognition system which uses temporal contiguity to learn extensible representations of objects on-line. The system performs well both on real-world and synthetic data and shows robustness under illumination changes. In this paper, we present results which compare the proposed representation against simple image-based representations of the same complexity using Minkowski Minimum Distance classifiers and Support Vector Machine classifiers. Recognition results for all classifiers show large improvements with incorporated temporal information.