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Cognition Theory Motivated Image Semantics and Image Language

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Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2005)

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Much evidence from visual psychology suggests that images can be looked as a kind of language, by which image semantics can be unambiguously expressed. In this paper, we discuss the primitives and grammar of image language based on cognition theory. Hence image understanding can surely be manipulated in the same way as language analysis.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, 100044, China

    Aimin Wu, De Xu & Xu Yang

  2. Dongying Vocational College, Shandong, 257091, China

    Aimin Wu & Jianhui Zheng

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  1. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Block S1, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

    Lipo Wang

  2. Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany

    Yaochu Jin

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Wu, A., Xu, D., Yang, X., Zheng, J. (2005). Cognition Theory Motivated Image Semantics and Image Language. In: Wang, L., Jin, Y. (eds) Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery. FSKD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3614. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11540007_167

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