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Figure 6.2.
The mystery picture revealed
Figure 6.3.
An aerial sketch map
An aerial sketch map is depicted on
the left. The interpretation task is
to identify each region of the image
as one of grass, water, pavement, a
house, or a vehicle.
an image, the job is to
interpret
the image components, that is, to identify (at some
level) what the regions or edges actually represent in the scene.
This visual interpretation can be formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem.
However, considerably more knowledge of the world will have to be applied than for
the problems of chapter 5.
6.2 Aerial sketch maps
Imagine looking down from an airplane passing over a terrain and seeing the image
represented by the sketch in figure 6.3. The job is to identify the various regions in the
