Imagine waiting for incoming passengers at the arrival gate at the airport. Your visual system can easily find faces and identify whether one of them is your friend's. As with other tasks that our ...

Visual objects in the real world are seen in contextual scenes. These contexts are usually coherent in terms of their physical and semantic content, and they usually occur in typical configurations.

A study examining the brain of a person with object agnosia, a defect in the inability to recognize objects, is providing a unique window into the sophisticated brain mechanisms critical for object ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

Object detection and recognition are an integral part of computer vision systems. In computer vision, the work begins with a breakdown of the scene into components that a computer can see and analyse.