In image analysis, the concept of similarity has been widely explored and various measures of similarity, or of distance, have been proposed that yield a quantitative evaluation. There are cases, however, in which the evaluation of similarity should reproduce the judgment of a human observer based mainly on qualitative and, possibly, subjective appraisal of perceptual features. This process is best modeled as a cognitive process based on knowledge structures and inference strategies, able to incorporate the human reasoning mechanisms and to handle their inherent uncertainties. This articlea proposes a general strategy for similarity evaluation in image analysis considered as a cognitive process. A salient aspect is the use of fuzzy logic propositions to represent knowledge structures, and fuzzy reasoning to model inference mechanisms. Specific similarity evaluation procedures are presented that demonstrate how the same general strategy can be applied to different image analysis problems

Fuzzy reasoning approach to similarity evaluation in image analysis

BINAGHI, ELISABETTA
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1993-01-01

Abstract

In image analysis, the concept of similarity has been widely explored and various measures of similarity, or of distance, have been proposed that yield a quantitative evaluation. There are cases, however, in which the evaluation of similarity should reproduce the judgment of a human observer based mainly on qualitative and, possibly, subjective appraisal of perceptual features. This process is best modeled as a cognitive process based on knowledge structures and inference strategies, able to incorporate the human reasoning mechanisms and to handle their inherent uncertainties. This articlea proposes a general strategy for similarity evaluation in image analysis considered as a cognitive process. A salient aspect is the use of fuzzy logic propositions to represent knowledge structures, and fuzzy reasoning to model inference mechanisms. Specific similarity evaluation procedures are presented that demonstrate how the same general strategy can be applied to different image analysis problems
1993
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/int.4550080702
Image Analysis; similarity evaluation; fuzzy logic
Binaghi, Elisabetta; A. D., Ventura; A., Rampini; R., Schettini
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