Reasoning about Perception

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Musto, Daniela^; | Konolige, Kurt

Affiliations: Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025, U.S.A., e-mail: imusto@ai.sri.com; konolige@ai.sri.com

Note: [] On leave from: Institute for Information Processing, National Research Council of Italy, via Santa Maria, 46, I-56126 Pisa, Italy, E-mail: musto@iei.pi.cnr.it

Abstract: In this paper we investigate some of the uncounscious mechanisms underlying the process of acquisition of beliefs through perception. The paper outlines the basics of a formal theory of belief that is sensitive to the way in which beliefs are formed through perception. The process of belief acquisition involves a form of inference that is defeasible. We represent this kind of inference by means of well-known techniques of non-monotonic reasoning. In addition, we provide an account of perception that is consistent with the commonsense intuition for how perception functions, i.e., causality.

DOI: 10.3233/AIC-1993-63-404

Journal: AI Communications, vol. 6, no. 3-4, pp. 207-212, 1993