Computer Science – Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Scientific paper
2004-07-19
Computer Science
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The results of a numerically simulated experiment, which illustrates the proposed method, have been added to the version submi
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2128687
This paper shows how a machine, which observes stimuli through an uncharacterized, uncalibrated channel and sensor, can glean machine-independent information (i.e., channel- and sensor-independent information) about the stimuli. First, we demonstrate that a machine defines a specific coordinate system on the stimulus state space, with the nature of that coordinate system depending on the device's channel and sensor. Thus, machines with different channels and sensors "see" the same stimulus trajectory through state space, but in different machine-specific coordinate systems. For a large variety of physical stimuli, statistical properties of that trajectory endow the stimulus configuration space with differential geometric structure (a metric and parallel transfer procedure), which can then be used to represent relative stimulus configurations in a coordinate-system-independent manner (and, therefore, in a channel- and sensor-independent manner). The resulting description is an "inner" property of the stimulus time series in the sense that it does not depend on extrinsic factors like the observer's choice of a coordinate system in which the stimulus is viewed (i.e., the observer's choice of channel and sensor). This methodology is illustrated with analytic examples and with a numerically simulated experiment. In an intelligent sensory device, this kind of representation "engine" could function as a "front-end" that passes channel/sensor-independent stimulus representations to a pattern recognition module. After a pattern recognizer has been trained in one of these devices, it could be used without change in other devices having different channels and sensors.
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