INFERENCE OF STRUCTURE - HANDS

Many images can be viewed in terms of simpler components, such as a ha nd viewed as a collection of fingers and a palm. Recognition can then be achieved by finding these components and examining the relationship s between them. If each component can be further decomposed into sub-c omponents, then this approach may be applied recursively to the image until some low-level primitives are obtained. This decomposition impos es a hierarchy upon the recognition, as the same image is described at several different levels as a collection of increasingly simple parts . This paper explores an attempt to solve a recognition problem using such an approach. Notably each level of the problem is solved using es sentially identical techniques. This uniformity of approach suggests a great potential for generalisation to many different types of recogni tion problem.