Interactive and automatic image recognition system

We have developed a vision system which learns to recognize many kinds of two-dimensional objects in many kinds of images. Image processing program modules are classified based on functions in the library. First, the user can teach the system the way to recognize objects in the image interactively testing the effectiveness of each program by trial and error. The system stores what it learns in the long-term memory calledmodel. The model is improved by analyzing training images in the same way. Once the model is completed, the system can automatically analyze images in the same category and recognize the expected objects in a top-down way driven by the model. Since a model is built for images in each category, the system can recognize various kinds of images simply by retrieving the corresponding models.