Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

1-2010

Abstract

Currently, there are many sensors collecting information about our environment, leading to an overwhelming number of observations that must be analyzed and explained in order to achieve situation awareness. As perceptual beings, we are also constantly inundated with sensory data, yet we are able to make sense of our environment with relative ease. Why is the task of perception so easy for us, and so hard for machines; and could this have anything to do with how we play the game 20 Questions?

Comments

Presented at the Dagstuhl Seminar 10042: Semantic Challenges in Sensor Networks, Dagstuhl, Germany, January 24-29, 2010.


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