Synonyms
Object identification; Object labeling
Definition
Object recognition is concerned with determining the identity of an object being observed in the image from a set of known labels. Oftentimes, it is assumed that the object being observed has been detected or there is a single object in the image.
Historical Background
As the holy grail of computer vision research is to tell a story from a single image or a sequence of images, object recognition has been studied for more than four decades [9, 22]. Significant efforts have been spent to develop representation schemes and algorithms aiming at recognizing generic objects in images taken under different imaging conditions (e.g., viewpoint, illumination, and occlusion). Within a limited scope of distinct objects, such as handwritten digits, fingerprints, faces, and road signs, substantial success has been achieved. Object recognition is also related to content-based image retrieval and multimedia indexing as a number of generic...
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Yang, MH. (2018). Object Recognition. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1042
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