Generating and Understanding Scene Descriptions.
David L. Waltz · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1980
This paper explores design issues for a system which has both vision and language, in particular, a system which addresses both the problem of selecting appropriate words and sentences to describe a particular perceptual event, and the related problem of making appropriate inferences about a natural language description of a perceptual event. It argues that perception is basically a description-building process, and that the understanding of scene descriptions is ultimately based on our ability to first use scene descriptions to drive processes of 'picture-building', and then to drive processes of 'event-simulation' which cause the 'pictures' we build to mimic the dynamics of the world. (Author)