Title
Divided we fall: resolving occlusions using causal reasoning
Abstract
An image of a scene with occlusions can yield only partial knowledge about disconnected fragments of the scene. If this were the only knowledge available, programs attempting to interpret the scene would have to conclude that the scene fragments would collapse in a jumble. But they won't. We describe a program that exploits commonsense knowledge of naive physics to make sense of scenes with occlusion. Our causal analysis focuses on the static stability of structures: what supports what. Occluded connections in a link-and-junction scene are inferred by determining the stability of each subassembly in the scene, and connecting parts when they are unstable. The causal explanation that is generated reflects a deeper understanding of the scene than mere model matching; it allows the seeing agent to predict what will happen next in the scene, and determine how to interact with it.
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
10.1007/3-540-57956-7_61
ECCV
Keywords
Field
DocType
causal reasoning
Causal analysis,Commonsense knowledge,Computer vision,Model matching,Causality,Causal reasoning,Naïve physics,Computer science,Artificial intelligence
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-57956-7
1
0.41
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul R. Cooper1457.63
Lawrence A. Birnbaum272.60
Daniel Halabe310.41
Matthew Brand4120482.37
Peter Prokopowicz55812.94