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title: "Action Representation and Purpose: Re-evaluating the Foundations of Computational Vision"
authors:
  - "Michael J. Black"
  - "Yiannis Aloimonos"
  - "Christopher M. Brown"
  - "Ian Horswill"
  - "Jitendra Malik"
  - "Giulio Sandini"
  - "Michael J. Tarr"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/230"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/0230.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1993
pages: "1661-1665"
track: "Panels"
keywords:
---

# Action Representation and Purpose: Re-evaluating the Foundations of Computational Vision

Michael J. Black, Yiannis Aloimonos, Christopher M. Brown, Ian Horswill, Jitendra Malik, Giulio Sandini, Michael J. Tarr

*Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1661-1665.

## Abstract

The traditional goal of compu t er vis ion , to recons truct , or recover properties of, the scene has recently been challenged by advocates of a new purposive approach in which the vision problem is defined in t er ms of the goals of an active agent . In th e starkest light th e debate can be c haracteri zed as one about th e role of exp licit repr ese ntations . The extreme traditionalists strive for a detail ed re pr ese ntation of the 3D world while the other ex tr em e adopts a strict be haviorist stance which esc hews representations in favor of "direct sensing . " This panel will ex plore the roles of action, representation , and purpose in computer vision and, in doing so, will hopefully dis cover areas of agreement .