This paper explores ways of combining vision and touch for the purpose of object recognition.
3D model-based approaches have been proposed for the purpose of object detection and tracking in [3, 12, 13].
Visuo-tactile approaches show considerable performance gains over either individual modality for the purpose of object recognition.
HOG descriptors [26] used in computer vision and image processing for the purpose of object detection count occurrences of gradient orientation in localized portions of an image.
For example, assigning a wrong category label to a pixel will make an inaccurate understanding of scene; however, assigning a wrong object label to a pixel will not change the fact that it is an object of given category, as the purpose of object labeling is to partition the multiple instances of the same category.
The equivalent thermal resistance of a heat exchanger is defined based on the concept of the entransy dissipation rate, which measures the irreversibility of heat transfer for the purpose of object heating or cooling, rather than from the heat to work conversion.
This level assumes high-level reasoning about the meaning and purpose of objects or scenes.
Not surprisingly, human psychology includes a powerful bias toward thoughts about the "purpose" or "function" of objects and behaviors what Kelemen and Rosset (2009) dub the "human function compunction".
In Cimiano and Wenderoth's perception [12] of the qualia structure, the constitutive role characterizes parts or components of the object described by the noun, the formal role describes the hyperonymic relations of the noun, while the agentive and telic roles are represented by verbs that describe, respectively, an action that brings about the object in view and the purpose of this object.
With descriptions available only on computer, however, the purpose of the objects in the daily lives of Indians is left to the imagination.
The idea of "perceived affordances" developed by Donald Norman, a concept in which the user must be able to immediately identify the purpose of an object or icon by its appearance is central to the work of everyone from Google to television remote-control manufacturers.
