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The various viewpoint analyses may be regarded as aspects of a single issue- when and how an observer may legitimately assume that properties of stimulation are simply and directly indicative of features of the world. Also, expressing observer/observed relationships calls for appropriate ways of classifying observables: so understanding observer/observed relationships feeds back into understanding what may be observed.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/224","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0224.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/224.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/bibtex/224","volume":{"slug":"1983","title":"Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1983","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/","year":1983,"location":"Karlsruhe, West Germany","dates":"","editors":"Alan Bundy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Vision","track":"Vision","number":224,"pages":{"first":952,"last":957},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"Binford, T. (1981) Inferring Surfaces from Images. 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