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Recognition-by-Components: A Theory of Human Image Understanding
Irving Riederman
State University of New York at Buffalo
‘The percentual recoenition of abscisic coneentualizn in bea proce in which the image af the
input is segmented at regions of deep concavity into an arrangement of simple geometiccompo-
nents, such as blocks, cylinders, wedges, and cones. The fundamental assumption of the proposed
theory, recognition-by-components (RBO) is that a modest set of generalized.cone components,
‘alled goone (A 16), cam be ded rom comtarte af wroelydetciahe proprtne of ogee
‘two-dimensional image: curvature, collinearity, symmetry, parallelism, and coterminaton,