week 5: structural descriptions (end)

• compositionality (E. Bienenstock, S. Geman)
• applying the principle of compositionality to handprinted character recognition (D. Potter and S. Geman)

1. compositionality
2. its application to handprinted character recognition

here are the slides (in PDF)

supplementary material

• the previous 20 years in computer vision and in visual psychophysics never happened, and here is the proof: A Situation-Bayes View of Object Recognition Based on Symgeons (F. Pirri and M. Romano)
• recall that compositionality is an import from metamathematics (Frege's original work) via linguistics; somewhat embarrassingly, language turns out to be not all that compositional (a page from How Language Works)