Object recognition is a key technology behind driverless cars, enabling them to recognize a stop sign or to distinguish a pedestrian from a lamppost.
It is also useful in a variety of applications such as disease identification in bioimaging, industrial inspection, and robotic vision.
Object Recognition: Theories
Object recognition involves matching representations of objects stored in memory to representations extracted from the visual image.
Caption: MIT researchers have found that the part of the visual cortex known as the inferotemporal (IT) cortex is required to distinguish between different objects.
As visual information flows into the brain through the retina, the visual cortex transforms the sensory input into coherent perceptions.